Breaking the cycle of normative misery | Sonal Bhatia, MD | TEDxYorkville Women

It was early morning just before rounds. I was putting on my white coat when my phone rang. It was Anita's mom.Her voice broke before she could even say the words. She's gone. A fist closed around my chest, my breath caught.I leaned against the hospital wall as the world around me swirled. The antiseptic sting in the air, the steady beeping in the monitors, nurses shuffling quietly past me with clipboards in their hands. The sounds of the hospital still there, but suddenly distant, muffled, unreal.Anita, my ...