In July 1984, during the second week of my internship, I picked up “Steven Ferris,”* and I disliked him immediately. This came as a surprise; in all the years leading up to physicianhood, I never imagined disliking patients, or even being angry with them. And I certainly had no inkling of the effect antipathy might have on my caregiving skills.
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* Fictitious name.
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