Power of Kindness The

Brian Goldman travels the world in search of empathy and finds it in the most surprising of placesAs a veteran emergency room physician Dr. Brian Goldman has a successful career setting broken bones curing pneumonia and otherwise pulling people back from the brink of medical emergency. He always believed that caring came naturally to physicians. But time stress errors and heavy expectations left him questioning if he was the same caring doctor he once thought he was. He wondered what kindness truly looks likein himself and in others The Power of Kindness Goldman leaves the familiar surroundings of the hospital in search of his own lost compassion. A top neuroscientist performs an MRI scan of his brain to see if he is hard-wired for empathy. A researcher tests his personality and makes a startling discovery. Goldman then circles the planet in search of the most empathic people alive to hear their stories and learn their secrets. He walks a boulevard in So Paulo where he meets a woman who calls a homeless poet her soulmate and reunited him with his family; a research lab in Kyoto where he meets a lifelike empathetic android; and a nursing home in rural Pennsylvania where he meets a therapist at a nursing home who has an uncanny knack of knowing whats inside the hearts and minds of people with dementia as well as her protege a woman who talked a gun-wielding robber into walking away from his crime. Powerful and engaging The Power of Kindness takes us far from the theatre of medicine and into the world at large and investigates why kindness is so vital to our existence.