Why is it hard to find grace in medicine?
“If I make a mistake, my patient could go home in a body bag.”
I don’t recall whom I first heard this from, but it stuck in my mind as terrifying thoughts do. And we wonder why burnout in medicine is a thing.
Mistakes in medicine can cause mortal consequences. They can harm another human being. We can’t escape this reality. We can’t undo it. We don’t get “three lives,” as in …
Why is it hard to find grace in medicine?
