A 34-year-old man fighting for his life in the Intensive Care Unit is on an artificial respirator for over a month. Could it be that his chance of getting off the respirator is not how much his nurses know, but rather how much they care? A 75-year-old woman is heroically saved by a major trauma center only to be discharged and fatally struck by a car while walking home from the hospital. Could a lack of compassion from the hospital staff have been a factor in her death? Compelling new research shows that health care is in the midst of a compassion crisis. But the pivotal question is Does compassion really matter? In The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference, physician scientists Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli uncover the eye-opening data that compassion could be a wonder drug for the 21st century. Now, for the first time ever, a rigorous review of the science - coupled with captivating stories from the front lines of medicine - demonstrates that human connection in health care matters in astonishing ways. Never before has all the evidence been synthesized together in one place. You will see compelling evidence

• Compassion has vast benefits for patients across a wide variety of conditions
• Missed opportunities for compassion can have devastating health effects
• Compassion can help reverse the cost crisis in health care
• Compassion can be an antidote for burnout among health care providers
• 40 seconds of compassion can save a life After seeing all the evidence, the answer is crystal Compassion matters...in not only meaningful but measurable ways.