My patients teach me, guide me, and remind me that I am here
It’s an odd thing doing what I do sometimes. Dichotomies of highs and lows, life and death, joy and sorrow. In the past 15 years that I have been in health care — a nurse’s assistant, to registered nurse, to now pediatric nurse practitioner — I have had the strange experience of all this emotion. It wasn’t until recently, maybe because I have a family of my own now, that …