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You Can't Hide the Bridges
Lauren S. Hughes
A family physician reflects on her struggle to reconcile the experience of witnessing a man commit suicide during her residency and how it shaped her personally and professionally. She describes the powerlessness she felt in the face of inevitability, the questions of professional boundaries that resulted, and how the experience challenged her sense of capability to fulfill the very calling that brought her into medicine--to help patients fix important problems in their lives.
