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Issidoros Sarinopoulos, Michigan State University

Caption: Michigan State University radiology professor Issidoros Sarinopoulos led a study showing that doctors who express empathy change the way their patients' brains function and help them tolerate pain.

Credit: Photo by G.L. Kohuth.

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