They Shouldn’t Get to Hurt You

Author: Diann M. Krywko, MD (1)

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Brief Excerpt:  

“Where did you get that?”

My twelve-year-old daughter asks, pointing directly to the dark purple and red bruise on my forearm.

Long pause.

I don’t want to tell her the truth. However, my daughter is very insightful. She wouldn’t be asking if she did not already suspect something irregular about the character of this injury.

Yet, I don’t want to her to be scared when I leave for work—or when I’m not there when she goes to bed. Does she really need to know how dangerous it is to work in an emergency department?…Click here to keep reading via full access complete pdf

Affiliation:

1. Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Emergency Medicine