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Modeling Compassion: Diabetes Outpatient Clinic Teaches More Than Medicine

Compassion is a core value for the Duke University medical community. But how does one go about teaching it? Pose the question to longtime medical educator Diana McNeill, MD, director and a co-founder of the interprofessional Diabetes Clinic at Duke Outpatient Clinic (DOC-DM), and she readily responds, “You can’t teach compassion; you role model it.”