RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 You Can’t Hide the Bridges
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 181
OP 183
DO 10.1370/afm.1759
VO 13
IS 2
A1 Hughes, Lauren S.
YR 2015
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/13/2/181.abstract
AB After witnessing a man commit suicide during my residency, I struggled to reconcile the trauma itself, my own competence, and multiple boundary issues I was exploring as a newly minted doctor. My powerlessness in the face of inevitability challenged my sense of capability to fulfill the very calling that brought me into medicine in the beginning—to help fix important problems in the lives of my patients. In the aftermath, I chose to remain connected to the experience in the way I honor him still today.