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
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.