Click here to read “Can Doctors Learn Empathy?” by Pauline W. Chen, M.D. from The New York Times on June 21, 2012.
My colleague loved performing surgery as much as anyone I had ever met. Every morning he bounded into the hospital, full of energy and cheerful anticipation of the day’s surgical schedule, his prominent mouth stretched into a broad grin.
“Too bad his foot is always in it,” another doctor whispered one day as our colleague passed by.