Voices in Humanism

Overwhelming
A friend
of a friend
going into hospice
A particularly
poignant
paragraph in a novel
about loss
An email with
notification of
transplant de-listing
Senseless killing
unrecognized
by those who swore
to protect us
Sometimes this world
takes
too much.

Jessica Rutsky, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellow
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Voices in Humanism Board