When You Smile at Misfortune
Oct 17, 2022•7 min
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Episode description
It is more likely emotional overload rather than apathy or insensitivity that prompts these contradictory expressions of emotion. An involuntary attempt to achieve a type of emotional homeostasis.
Sadaf Qureshi, a hematologist/oncologist at Summit Health in Florham Park, New Jersey, reflects on "appropriate" responses to misfortune.
The essay read in this episode was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the October 2022 issue of Academic Medicine. Read the essay at academicmedicine.org.
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