Find you have a flat tire? A bad start to your busy day or a good excuse to bow out of the boring staff meeting. An unexpected spike in your medical lab results?
A good reason to tell yourself that you can never catch a break, or to be grateful for the state of medicine and its ability to catch a problem early.
The old glass half empty or half full. The matter of perspective. It’s said that if we step back, we can look at most events as being relatively neutral — neither good nor bad, things that happen — and we can see that most emotions change in their own time.
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