When you have been a medical professional, there are a lot of things that you’ll never be able to unsee.
Things like severe anal lacerations.
Things like fungus in places where it should not be.
Things like genital warts and sores.
Things like diseases such as hepatitis, monkeypox, and full-bore AIDS.
Things like balls, beads, and light bulbs shoved up into a person’s large intestine.
Things like cancers that a normal person would usually be able to avoid having.
Things like “meth mouth” stemming from selling one’s body.
Things like walking corpses barely able to stand.
Things like depression, of a kind for which there is no medication to alleviate.
Things like fights between two people that go far beyond the typical domestic disturbance.
Things like malnourishment.
Things like slashed wrists and deliberate drug overdose.
Things like suicide attempts that more often than not succeed.
Having seen such tragedies, too ...



