The Doctor Who Can Literally Feel People’s Pain
As one reporter put it: “Because of mirror touch, he closely attends to his patients, leading to effortless empathy with their condition.” Salinas’s condition might sound straight out of a sci-fi novel, but there is a potential neurological explanation that is very of this world: Mirror touch may be an exaggerated form of a process all our brains have—the ability to mirror, or somewhat simulate, what others are doing and feeling. I watched as Salinas performed a neurological exam on a female patient who had been re-admitted to the hospital after having a bad reaction to medication following brain surgery.
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