The Quality of Mercy

Daniel K. Hall-Flavin, M.D.

Introduction

Dr. Hall-Flavin is a St. Louis native and a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Kansas City.  He has specialized in the field of Addiction Psychiatry and has served on the medical faculties of Cornell University, The George Washington University New York Medical College and is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.  He has served as the Medical Director of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence from1986 to 2000.  He has had research interests in pharmacogenomics, the interface between mood disorders and addiction, and both Neuro-ethics and the Medical Humanities.  He is currently a MSC candidate in the Medial Humanities at Kings College in London and a visitor at the Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics at Oxford University.

 Learning Objectives

1. To become familiar with the history and nature of human empathy.
2. To be able to discuss the concept of mercy in relationship to empathy.
3. To cite means of instantiation of empathy more routinely into the clinical practice of medicine and psychiatry.

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Relevant financial relationship(s) with industry: 

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 No relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:
Brian Palmer, M.D., Michael Bostwick, M.D., Karen Grothe, Ph.D., Lois Krahn, M.D., Jarrod Leffler, Ph.D., Larissa Loukianova, M.D., Mary Machulda, Ph.D., Patricia Maus, M.D., Amber Pearson, Jeffrey Staab, M.D., Cosima Swintak, M.D., Kristin Vickers Douglas, Ph.D., Cynthia Harbeck-Weber, Ph.D., Michael Zaccariello, Ph.D., Georgina Rink

Daniel Hall-Flavin, M.D.

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