Amos Grünebaum: What Patients Need Is Not Empathy, What They Need Is Compassion
Amos Grünebaum, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“The two-week wait after an embryo transfer is one of the most psychologically intense periods in reproductive medicine. Patients know the statistics. They have read the SART data. They have calculated their clinic’s success rates by age, by diagnosis, by transfer type. And then they wait. The knowing does nothing to protect them.
Reproductive endocrinology and infertility has a particular relationship with hope that no other subspecialty quite replicates. Patients arrive having already processed loss: miscarriages, failed cycles, diagnoses of diminished ovarian reserve, partner factor infertility, unexplained infertility that is its own particular cruelty. They arrive sophisticated about their own bodies. And they arrive needing something that the AI empathy debate has consistently failed to name correctly.
What they need is not empathy. What they need is compassion.”
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