Pictured speaking at dotMD in Galway this month is emergency medicine physician and author Dr Brian Goldman. The title of Dr Goldman’s talk was ‘Kindness in Medicine: Why Should I Be a Kind Doctor When I Have So Much to be Pissed Off About?’. His latest book The Power of Kindness – Why Empathy is Essential in Everyday Life is about Dr Goldman’s personal and professional search for empathy in healthcare and in his own personal life. dotMD is a two-day festival of curiosity for doctors and healthcare practitioners looking for more from medicine