A story from What We Carry

Very Young to Have Seen So Much Death

A patient’s grieving daughter once said to me, concerned, “You’re very young to have seen so much death”. Her sympathy was unexpected. Her own mother had just passed. Sometimes it pays to be reminded what an abnormal job we have. Most don’t witness pain and suffering as a normal part of their day. Some days it’s harder to see the light than others.

The weight of it