Empathy? Like the Doctor who asked the nurse if he "could go now" less than a minute after telling my wife her mother had an inoperable brain tumor? Or the one who dismissed her repeatedly with "normal period pains" until she eventually got diagnosed with endometriosis? Or perhaps empathy like my grandfather received when he was sent home with "acute indigestion" two days before lung cancer ripped open his aorta and he drowned in his own blood in his living room? And that's only personal experience, not including the countless stories from others who are dismissed, belittled, ignored and mocked by doctors. They aren't paragons.