At the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which I am the founder and director, we have created programs and workshops whereby using science we promote the power of compassion and kindness to improve one’s health. At a recent workshop a participant who was going through cancer treatment shared how her world-renowned physician delivered her cancer diagnosis never looking her in the eye and explained her prognosis as a series of statistics and walked out abruptly. While a difficult situation itself, the physician compounded this by his less than empathetic manner that resulted in further pain to the patient potentially negatively affecting her prognosis. Stories such as this inspire our work at CCARE with clinicians to help them understand the power of the clinician-patient relationships on their patients’ health and give them tools to positively affect this relationship.