The Power of Kindness: Why Empathy Is Essential in Everyday Life

Author: Dr. Brian GoldmanPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersPaperback:ISBN 10: 144345107XISBN 13: 978-1443451079Hardcover:ISBN 10: 1443451061ISBN 13: 978-1443451062Brian Goldman travels the world in search of empathy and finds it in the most surprising of placesAs a veteran emergency room physician, Dr. Brian Goldman has a successful career setting broken bones, curing pneumonia and otherwise pulling people back from the brink of medical emergency. He always believed that caring came naturally to physicians. But time, stress, errors and heavy expectations left him questioning if he was the same caring doctor he once thought he was. He wondered what kindness truly looks like—in himself and in others.In The Power of Kindness, Goldman leaves the familiar surroundings of the hospital in search of his own lost compassion. A top neuroscientist performs an MRI scan of his brain to see if he is hard-wired for empathy. A researcher tests his personality and makes a startling discovery. Goldman