On this particular day, my heart rolled off my arm and crashed on the cold exam room floor. I summoned the strength—from where? I don’t know. Ginny cried, and between sobs, she described a brain tumor, the one that left him in a bed for a year. I handed her two tissues (one was never
When a doctor’s heart falls: Witnessing raw emotion in medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
