I was once told to be careful with the words we choose. “If diseases wage battles and patients must fight, we all, eventually, lose.” But when a friend or a father die, loss is what I felt. The feeling was always more, but never less. I couldn’t transfigure the pain by naming it something else.
Semantics, Literature by David Haak, MD
David Haak, MD
Internal Medicine
David is a third-year internal medicine resident who plans to be a hospitalist after completing a chief year. He enjoys writing as a novel way to explore the ways that patients and providers think, feel, and talk about healthcare.
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