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When professional caregivers become personally attached

I work in palliative care and am supposed to be professional but I have become attached to one patient and dread coming to work knowing she is getting worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The heart does not recognize professional boundaries, making healers vulnerable to the very grief they help others navigate.

Ideas that help explain it
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