One doctor examines the inherent violence of the medical profession where, as she puts it, surgeons and staff “hurt people in order to help them” by prying open their chest cavities and jamming tubes into veins. In the world outside the hospital, these acts would be considered traumatic and unsettling, so what psychic effect do they have on practitioners and patients? How can practitioners cultivate empathy? And how much medical violence is necessary?

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