{Who heals the healers?} ~ CMAJ

'"Maybe no one had thought about it," he said
or maybe they had, and didn't want to say it. Whatever the reason, no one had warned me about the pain medicine inflicts" he reflected."
so ponders Dr. Bellemare in his piece titled: Wounds to the Soul.
Bellemare recounts how being a physician exposes you to many troubling and traumatic events that, over time, may drown a physician in sadness and depression.
I opted to show the doctor taking his pulse to show the reflective, self-aware part of the story but also to show the worry that they are still 'alive'