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There’s a lot of ugliness in this world, and medics see a lot of it.
But for me, the thing that has stayed isn’t an image.
It’s a sound.
A mother collapsing in a hospital hallway after realizing her child was dead.
A guttural cry so deep and physical that everyone who heard it felt something break.
After years in emergency medicine, my body learned to recognize that sound before it even came.
And it changed the way I think about suffering, judgment, and how easily people decide who deserves care when they never have to carry the consequences.
Read the full story, The Cry, here.
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