title: Is It Possible to Develop a Compassionate Organization? Comment on "Why and How Is Compassion Necessary to Provide Good Quality Healthcare?".
abstract: This paper represents a commentary to Marianna Fotaki's Editorial: 'Why and how is compassion necessary to provide good quality healthcare?' Within this commentary, I discuss some of the issues raised by Marianna Fotaki, and conclude that we should work towards an organizational culture which considers the important concept of compassion by focusing on the well-being and teamwork of all involved.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shea
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009938:Organizations; D011787:Quality of Health Care
keywords: Compassion; Healthcare; Organization; Training