Author: Hadeel Alhadi Empathy is an important, yet an often misunderstood and neglected pillar in the physician-patient relationship. It involves understanding the emotional experience and needs of the patient, which may help ease their stress, and hence, establish a relationship based on trust and compassion. It only seems natural that clinical empathy is a key trait for physicians, but can a physician have too much empathy? To answer this question, a distinction must be mad