MedPage Today November 29, 2019
-Finding compassion in a cut-and-paste world
Physicians and nurses deal with the deepest issues of the human condition: life and death. Our profession brings new life into the world and does our best to bring comfort and peace at the journey’s end. It is a profound and emotional experience for medical professionals to be with a patient and family when life ends.
There are other professions that routinely confront loss of life. Law enforcement personnel, paramedics, firefighters, and soldiers all are exposed to events that most of us would never wish to experience.
The medical profession and society is struggling to preserve our humanity in a cut-and-paste world where one’s worth is determined by the quantity of Twitter followers.
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