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To be compassionate is, if we take the word to bits, to suffer with another, to feel their suffering almost as if it is our own. So someone can work hard to relieve suffering, and be highly skilled in doing so, without thereby exhibiting compassion - they could simply be doing their job and enjoying its challenges. They show compassion only if their efforts to relieve suffering arise from and express a fellow feeling and sympathy. Now, we all want to be looked after by skilled professionals, but we would also like to be treated not only with professionalism, but compassion too because another's sympathy does something to comfort and console me, even when, or perhaps especially when, there is nothing left for professionalism to do.
什么叫做富有同情心，如果我們說的詳細點，就是有難同當，感同身受。有些人會很盡力的緩解別人的痛苦，而且技藝高超，但看不到什么同情心的存在，他們只是單純在工作，并享受工作帶來的挑戰。只有當他們緩解痛苦的努力源于同感或者憐憫時，他們才會展示出同情心。現在，我們都希望能夠由專業人士來治療自己，但我們也希望在享受專業治療的同時也得到同情心，因為他人的同情和憐憫在專業技能無計可施時更能給我安撫和慰籍。
