I found a really beautiful piece of writing today.
Here's some background:
Shara Yurkiewicz is a med student. She's doing rounds now, moving from department to department. Much of what she sees, she's seeing for the first time. Not yet a doctor, there are moments, many moments when she has the eyes of a patient. She gets scared. She feels helpless. She's too involved. She's at that place in her training where everything is so sharp, so new, she feels the full, fresh stab of it, and sometimes, very privately, she bleeds.
Not too long ago, Shara was in the operating room while an 80-year-old man was undergoing hip surgery.
Things went terribly wrong:
Such a wonderfully written piece.
Out for now.....
Matt