Connections

by Tiffiany-45

Emily meets new patients every single day. She makes connections and cares about them. When she meets her new patient Jax, she builds a connection with him that will change her forever. However, there is a reason doctors are supposed to distance themselves from their patients. How will Emily put herself back together when these connections start to break and fall apart?

1. Chapter 1

Prologue

As we go about our lives, the day to day, we are inevitably making connections with others. They can be brief and fleeting, or they can turn into something more tangible and significant, or anything else along the spectrum. As doctors we are encouraged not to make connections, to remain as detached as possible. I've always had a little trouble with this unwritten rule. A sick and scared person is brought into my life and I am supposed to play a surly standoffish detective while seeking out the culprit that caused this turn of events? However, I've always preferred John Watson to Sherlock Holmes. Yes, Watson is a doctor, and one would say, of course you would relate more with him. But he was also the heart of the team, the one who was constantly ridiculed and misunderstood by his eccentric and apathetic friend. He played the moral compass between the two, not out of duty but from a place of deep and unwavering compassion.

Now, I will not claim to be a moral compass, I rarely know if I'm doing the right thing and I am consistently second guessing myself. But people have said that I care too much. By the way, how can you care "too much"? I mean, you either care or you don't. It's not like I'm writing love sonnets to patients or stalking them outside their hospital room. I just don't... I'm getting off track.

Connections, they happen every day, and as a doctor I make them into something tangible and significant. Because that is how I work, that is the only way I can be the best doctor I can be. This is also the reason I get into as much trouble as I do.