What should you do when compassion for your patient finally cracks?

It is a fragile emotion and sometimes it is necessary to invent reasons to make it exist, says Dr Chavi Eve Karkowsky
Dr Chavi Eve Karkowsky
Dr Chavi Eve Karkowsky.

Consider this version of the party game ‘Would you rather?’ — Would you rather have a doctor who’s kind and warm or a doctor who’s good at her job?

I know that many people would say this is a false question. A doctor can be both, they’d say.