“The disturbing part is that no one teaches us how to deal with death at any point during our medical training, or even during our lifetime for that matter, particularly in a field such as mine where death was an inevitable certainty for some patients.” SufferingBalanceEmotionsTraumaMedicalDedicationWellbeingHeartfeltOverworkedMedical Fiction Book:Burned Out Source: Burned Out
“It was awful and so surreal to see it unfold before my eyes. I will never forget that sight. The only thing I could think of is that one day you are king of your domain, and the next day you are being escorted to your car by security.” RelationshipsDramaStressPersonal GrowthTraumaThrillerHospitalRe Building Book:Burned Out Source: Burned Out
“They remained imprisoned in the CICU, kept alive in physicality by mechanical devices and medicinal support, inexorably suffering. I revered their resiliency, though I struggled to understand whether they were truly resilient or if this was a descriptive term I used to assure myself that what we were doing was just. Could they merely represent physical beings at this point, molecular derivatives of carbon and water, void of souls that had moved on months prior once the universe had delivered their inevitable fate, simply kept alive by us physicians, who ourselves clutched desperately to the most favored of our prehistoric binary measures of success: life?” ActionRelationshipsHumourDramaStressTraumaHealthcareBurnoutChildren S HospitalIcu Setting Book:Burned Out Source: Burned Out