Forty seconds of compassion can save a life. This is one of the conclusions drawn by Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli in their book, Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference. Leveraging scientific research and stories from the front lines, both argue that health care is in the midst of a compassion crisis, and that without compassion, the costs to patients and providers are enormous. Referencing a 2007 bus crash in Sweden...
