PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Marvin So TI - When Words Fail: Love’s Rightful Place in Medicine AID - 10.1370/afm.2814 DP - 2022 May 01 TA - The Annals of Family Medicine PG - 277--278 VI - 20 IP - 3 4099 - http://www.annfammed.org/content/20/3/277.short 4100 - http://www.annfammed.org/content/20/3/277.full SO - Ann Fam Med2022 May 01; 20 AB - Early in my medical training, I shared an intimate connection with a patient that took me by surprise. How was it that I could come to feel so strongly about someone I had only just met? The experience prompted me to contemplate the transcendent, curious relationship entwining patients and clinicians, and reflect on how such a relationship squared with my own conceptions of love and caregiving. Though it is sometimes argued that transferring our emotions onto patients beyond direct clinical concerns can bias or tarnish the medicine we provide, I contend these emotions can be cherished and prudently explored rather than swept away.