The Importance of Friendship

I don't know what happened to Amy or where she is now. We eventually discharged her and she was admitted shortly after at a different hospital. I stopped following her care, but she has followed me. What we do at the limits of our medical ethics reveals what kind of medicine it is that we are being formed to practice. Our reflection is just as broken and in need of friendship as the friendless patient who revealed it to us in the first place.