"The significance of the intimate personal relationship between physician and patient cannot be too strongly emphasized, for in an extraordinarily large number of cases both the diagnosis and treatment are directly dependent on it. One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient."
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–Francis W. Peabody, 1881–1927
Subjectively speaking, I’d say this is my greatest asset as a doctor, that I genuinely care about the people I treat. That’s what gives me the motivation to sometimes go out of my way to help them. Yet I often take this level of caring home with me. Is there such a thing as caring too much?
