Research:Health care professionals (HCP) are vulnerable to stress and empathy fatigue. HCP face exposure to suffering patients and an emotionally exhausting work environment.

Dr. Werner presents evidence that loving-kindness meditation, may be an essential pathway to effective emotion regulation. Contemplative practice may be a necessary tool for a humanistic, effective, and satisfying practice of medicine.

In an era in which many HCP suffer from professional burnout, engaging in regular contemplative practice may be a way in which HCP not only heal themselves but heal their patients as well.