As a medical professional, struggle between feeling too much and feeling too little is constant. Feelings are a double edged sword in medicine – many times they can shake you or beat you down. After two years, I know this: that the answer isn't to shut close the door to your heart. As painful as it is, that door must remain open, because if you stick around and survive the pain the dust often settles and what takes its place is more beautiful than anything that existed there before.

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