There's a NSFW image for this article. Not vulgar, but head's up. Learned a new word while reading this: auscultation. And while she doesn't quite use it like this in the article, I realize that sometimes I auscultate when I listen to people's problems instead of truly empathizing.<p>This is also beautifully written. One of my favorite parts:<p><pre><code> I am learning to worship strangers, and I want, so badly,
the space—the moment—to seek multiple truths, like an artist
or a writer—the truth of diagnosis, the truth of personhood.
I want to seek out clinical truths with a steady hand and
observant eye. But I also want to listen for spiritual truths
and emotional truths; I want to expose my heart and be
vulnerable enough to feel for and with patients.
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Bihar sounds like she'll make an incredibly thoughtful doctor.