From numbness to empathy: a reflection on medical practice
I’m not sad – I’m numb.
My friend, a seasoned internal medicine resident, revealed a chilling truth after grappling with eight patient codes – three lives eluded salvation. The gravity of his words froze me. When did the mourning for human existence transform into a necessity to numb our very core? I found myself pondering the onset of this desensitization, this “numbing.”
I thought back to my own experiences as a third-year …
