Turning Anxiety into Empathy

The story in the article below is about a medical student with severe anxiety, and her journey to get over it, led her to have greater empathy with her many patients who suffered from anxiety.

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The featured article below is written by Holland Kaplan, M.D.. An internal medicine resident at Baylor College of Medicine

Turning anxiety into empathy

Medical school was the first time in my life that I suffered from debilitating anxiety. I was overwhelmed by the volume of information I was expected to learn, and the anxiety impaired my ability to digest it all. I was unable to go to anatomy study sessions because I would have panic attacks when I was couldn’t identify structures.

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