When a medical assistant working with a terminally ill patient tries to understand how the patient feels about his or her experience without ever going through that type of experience, the medical assistant is showing _________ toward the patient.

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Empathy involves understanding another person's feelings and experiences as much as possible without having gone through them oneself, which is what the medical assistant is doing in this scenario.

When a Medical Assistant Working with a Terminally Ill Patient