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KRISTIN FORNER, MD FAAHPM
I have been writing for as long as I can remember, but I didn't start writing stories until I went into medicine. In the hospital, stories abound. They are stories cased in sorrow or sacrifice or the sacred. They are stories that tell of the tenacity of the human spirit, and of the mysteries that entangle our lives as unapologetically as they do our deaths. Sometimes they are stories of patients and their loved ones, but just as often they are the stories of their providers.
Some of these stories I am able to tell. Some are beyond my ability to do so. All of these stories are fractured. All of them encompass lives that were moving along as expected, until the moment something shattered. All of them have broken pieces, and places where the human heart is hemorrhaging. All of them need mending.