The myth of compassion in health care

I have a confession.

I didn’t enter my profession to help people. I know. It’s shocking.

Don’t get me wrong. I take my professional responsibility extremely seriously. I’m only admitting that the primary reason for choosing my profession was not altruistic. I made a practical decision to go down this path because of a junior high career day event. Otherwise, I had no real connection to any health.care profession other than liking biological sciences.

Why does this matter? I’m about to go against popular convention. I can almost hear the virtual protest, but hear me out.

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