5/24/2023 0 Comments In Shock by Rana Awdish![]() My brother was leaning forward in the crib, onto his hands, drooling, and seemed to be gulping the air rather than breathing. The first time I viewed the world through medicine’s transformative lens I was five years old, listening as my mother offered a seemingly vague description to the pediatrician by phone. ![]() Truly caring for a patient necessitates traversing borders and inhabiting the view of another with the humility of a visitor who knows he or she can choose to look away. If empathy is the ability to take the perspective of another and feel with them, then, at its best, the practice of medicine is a focused, scientific form of empathy. Medicine does this by asking questions and listening for not just what is said, but what may be true. A man’s burning stomach pain transforms into gastritis, which has both a cause and a cure, whereas his nonspecific pain had neither. A swollen, red “strawberry” tongue in a feverish child will lead the doctor to examine the heart and affirm a diagnosis of vasculitis. ![]() Focus its light on an unsorted pile of symptoms and it will converge them neatly into a diagnosis. ![]() Medicine can be a magical lens through which to view the human body. ![]()
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