oh my heart, please hold on

This is making me feel so small. It is filling me with rage and anger at everything and everyone.

This is beyond inhumane. Every moment of preventable suffering is unbearable.

Not being able to care for sick people the way we were taught, the way medicine is meant to be practiced, is devastating.

This is beyond darkness, beyond anything any human being should ever have to imagine. It is hell, slowly burning every single one of us from the inside out.

Oh, my heart, please hold on. Let me cry.

Let me feel this pain.

My heart is broken. I'm hurting in every part of my being.

Today's suffering was beyond overwhelming, We were unable to provide so much desperately needed help simply because we couldn't. Every single patient we saw today was suffering from severe psychological distress. About 90% had no identifiable organic cause for their symptoms. They came to the hospital because they simply couldn't bear the weight of what they were living through any longer.