You are going to share in the most intimate parts of your patients' lives. You will share in their moments of tragedy. But you will also share in their moments of greatest joy.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the deep emotional connection healthcare professionals have with their patients, experiencing both their pain and joy.
Kent Brantly's quote highlights the profound role that healthcare providers play in the lives of their patients. They are not merely healers of physical ailments, but also companions who share in the intimate experiences of their patients, from moments of deep tragedy to episodes of immense joy. This bond underscores the importance of empathy, compassion, and human connection in medicine, illustrating that the practice of healthcare is as much about emotional support as it is about clinical knowledge.
In practice
In a speech to new medical interns about the importance of patient relationships.
But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.
I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders. "The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too." "I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.
You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?'
She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes
I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.
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