To judge from anecdotal evidence, Mr Bush's "compassionate conservatism" (designed to reach out to wobbly Democrats) has failed.
These compassionate trial designs were developed and approved by the regulatory authorities and key opinion leaders and the continued treatment despite toxicity was a decision between the principal investigator and the patient on a case by case basis with very close patient monitoring.
Instead, compassionate conservatism was designed as a positive governing philosophy.
She's been a huge advocate of designing compassionate slaughterhouses - an oxymoron I KNOW, but one that she explains in great detail.
(And even the FDA's "compassionate-use" program, designed to permit the terminally ill to use certain unapproved drugs, is laden with bureaucratic obstacles for patients, doctors and pharmaceutical companies).
Automattic, MIT Center for Civic Media and my company, The Mash-Up Americans, have been working together to have honest dialogues, build empathy and help make the world a more inclusive and compassionate place with technology and design.
While NVC is ostensibly taught as a process of communication designed to improve compassionate connection to others, it has also been interpreted as a spiritual practice, a set of values, a parenting technique, an educational method and a worldview.
He said he was a compassionate conservative, but he has hammered programs designed to assist the poorest and most vulnerable among us.
This article describes an evaluation of a teaching approach designed to enhance students' ability to deliver compassionate care.
An instrument that measures providers' attitudes toward the homeless could offer meaningful information for the design and implementation of educational activities that foster more compassionate homeless health care.
