When We Can’t Fix
Today, I was sitting with a group of first year medical students, and we were talking about loss. Specifically, how to be with dying patients and their families. We were discussing the situation of one man’s catastrophic grief: the death of his entire family in a car accident. What could we, as physicians, do in such moments, if anything? One student raised his hand and said that he felt uncomfortable even thinking about it. That to try and say or do anything would feel