Dr Steven Feldman is JCMS Editor-in-Chief Dr Kirk Barber's guest on this latest edition of JCMS Author Interviews. The two have an in-depth conversation about the importance of empathy, or the appearance of empathy by doctors, as a means of getting patients to do a better job of treating themselves or their families.This conversation is based on the Article “Assessing the Effect of Clinical Trial Evidence and Anecdote on Caregivers’ Willingness to use Corticosteroids: A Randomized Controlled trial“ which appeared in the “January\February 2020 ” issue of the Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery.Dr. Feldman is a Professor of Dermatology, Pathology and Public Health Sciences at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and a dermatologist and skin pathologist at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.Music is by Lee Rosevere.JCMS Author Interviews is produced for the Canadian Dermatology Association by David McGuffin of Explore Podcast Productions in Ottawa.davidrcmcguffin@gmail.com