More times than I care to admit, I've had the job of looking at someone my own age to deliver bad news. Yeah, should have thought about that before going into a medical career...but hey! I'm just saving the world right?? It's more than humbling to sit across a table at someone who is ill, unable to comprehend what's coming to them, unable to distinguish priorities because they are medically so messed up that one thing doesn't sound better than another. I looked into eyes today of someone who is only 33 years old. This person has a progressive disease that is impacting every function of their body leaving them losing too much weight too fast, too high of a risk to do needed surgeries on, and with little hope for improvement. This person will die before I reach that age. She's the age of my cousins...my best friend....not very much older than me. My heart breaks for her.
It's not fair.
It's not fair.
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