How to lose your compassion: the brutal reality of medical internship

Not all at once, just slowly enough that you don’t notice. “I’m having a rough go at it,” Mr. Robinson confesses. He was listening to me use choppy, challenging vocabulary to piece together what’s landed him in the hospital. But I know what he’s talking about. The mass in his chest that’s been compressing on

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