The healing professional should not only deal with the patient's body, but needs to understand what it feels like to be sick. You need to comprehend how painful, how worrisome, and how disturbing it can be to not know what is going to happen to yourself. Understanding the interplay of all these factors requires wisdom. A true understanding of how these factors impact the behavior of a specific patient is what allows compassion to grow.
— Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Medicine and Compassion by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, David R. Shlim