Our ethics small group professor often shares sad stories of patients she has had to witness pass. After all, the heart of many ethics discussions turns to that fine thread of life and death. It seems that every physician collects a couple of these. Today she choked up during the discussion and was living the entire experience over again. I never even knew this person and I had to fight tears.
You never really know what to say or do in those situations, as someone's story unfolds. So I hugged her after class.
Her body, so small; I, the awkward giant.
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