“Practicing medicine doesn’t lend itself to the making of friends. Maybe because life and mortality are in our faces all the time. Maybe because in staring down death everyday, we’re forced to know that life, every minute is borrowed time. And each person, we let ourselves care about is just one more loss somewhere down the line. For this reason, I know some doctors who just don’t bother making friends at all. But the rest of us, we make it our job to move that line. To push each loss as far away as we can.”
~ Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy

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May 22, 2009 at 11:42 am
Cyanide
Although majority of my patients don’t die on me, just go beserk… I’m also pushing the “losses” far from me… pushing hard.
Nice words from meredith…