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I’m reminded of the NYT piece How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead by Naomi Rosenberg, an ER doctor in Philadelphia. Highly recommend reading it for insight

• simonswords82 8y ago
  Now that's a beautiful piece of writing on a terribly tragic subject.
• zeveb 8y ago
  That is, indeed, a beautiful piece of writing, but this bit here got me to thinking: > You are here for her. She is his mother. Does it really make sense that the person whose job is operating on physical trauma victims is also the person who deals with emotional trauma victims? Seems to me that those are two entirely different skill sets, and even mindsets. On a human level, yes I'd want to hear the news from the surgeon who operated on my loved one. But on a practical level, I think I'd rather my loved one be operated on by the surgical equivalent of House than by someone less talented at surgery but with a greater capacity for empathy.