How do I cope with managing a team instead of working with patients myself?

You had a quiet gift with frightened patients. The steady hand, the calm voice, the way you could make a scared person trust you for the thirty seconds that mattered. Now you manage a team and the lab's demands, and that gift sits mostly unused. That is a real loss. But the gift is not gone; it is teachable. Every nervous tech you coach, every new hire you show how to steady a shaking patient, carries your calm into rooms you will never enter. The comfort you gave one patient at a time can now reach hundreds through the people you train. That is the trade leadership asks of you. Still, keep your own hands in it. Take a shift on the floor. Draw the hard sticks, the scared kids, the ones no one else can calm. It keeps your gift alive and shows your team what good looks like. You did not lose the skill. You are teaching it now.