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  • Everyday as a Doctor I Ask Myself If a Puppy Would Do More for Patients Than I Can

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    I became a doctor because I wanted to help people. Like “supporting the community” and “doing what's right,” the idea of “helping people” can be so vague that it borders on meaningless. And so, having entered medicine with good intentions but without specifics about whom I wanted to help or how I would go about doing it, I would soon learn just how hard it was to truly help anyone at all.
    The truth is that the idea of a sick person coming to see a doctor, being diagnosed and treated, and later leaving cured and satisfied is somewhat quaint. These days, patients often arrive with chronic...
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