Becoming My Own Object

Patients are objects.
Regardless of their objective clinical signs or their subjective complaints, to us, they are objects.

A few days ago, a patient with double vision told me that he saw two of me.
For that moment, I felt that I had become my own object.

From medical school to now, I have spent over ten years in clinical practice.
Although I have always had empathy for my patients, true shared experience between people is difficult—if not impossible.

Until that moment, when I became my own object.