Viewpoint: Compassion in primary health care: conflicts, politics, and opportunities.

> Concern, interest, compassion, virtue ethics, caritas, love, fellow-feeling, care, kindness, empathy, sympathy, flourishing, phileo, and concerned friendship. On 6 June 2013 RCGP (Scotland) hosted a conference at Edinburgh’s Grassmarket Community Project on the need for compassion in health care. It was a rich and satisfying day; far too much to reduce to 400 words. It is simply impossible to encapsulate the presentations from Peter Toon, Charlie Heriot-Maitland, and Jane Macnaughton or the thought-provoking workshops on ‘the politics of compassion’ and the stimulating Q&A …