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How medical imaging haunts healthcare providers

I am a surgeon and I dream about the MRI images of my patients' tumors and wake up feeling like I am carrying everyone's cancer in my head.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Repeated exposure to visual evidence of suffering can create a form of vicarious trauma that professional boundaries cannot fully prevent.

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“Where Are You with Medical imaging and what it shows?”

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