What Is Patient Dehumanization

I think patient dehumanization happens because it is hard for the doctor or nurses to see someone suffering. Perhaps it is lack of compassion from patient from patient, but I believe that since doctors deal with pain all the time they don’t want to immerse themselves in others pain. I know from personal experience that unless I am feeling the pain for myself it is hard to be sympathetic. My sister has migraines and headaches all the time and all I can say is I am sorry; however, when I have a headache I just feel so terrible. In times like those, I feel greater empathy for my sister then when I am not in pain. Medical professionals are attempting to combat dehumanization of patients. I have read, in an article by Muller, that some of the ways