[Jataman606]

Would you like to make bonds with people that will soon die over and over again? I think many people misunderstand the kind of stress and mental strain that many doctors are subjected to regularly. Ironically, people who call for doctors to be more empathetic, often lack empathy themselves.

Also medicine is very broad field, it's probably hard to stay up to date in every new study. Especially that academic research is filled with less than ideal studies, so not only you need to read and understand them properly, you also need to make sure that source is trustworthy.

[yadingus]

That stress doesn't come from empathy, it comes from treating death as something to be feared and not talked about.

In other cultures death is not such an icky subject, and making bonds doesn't mean generating attachment that will lead to stress.