I could not save this life with every possible medical tool at my disposal

Physician
November 28, 2020

An excerpt from The Healer’s Burden: Stories and Poems of Professional Grief.

Leaning on the door of Trauma Bay 1, I survey the remains of my latest failure. The story is told in the bloody and jumbled instrument trays, monitors now silent and dark. In …

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I could not save this life with every possible medical tool at my disposal