I spotted these two strange little creatures on the ground. I don’t know what they are but what struck me at the time, and what strikes me again now, is that one is curled up tightly into a little circle and the other is stretched out straight like a stick or a line.
Two the same, two different.
I’m pretty sure that if they had both been behaving the exact same way as each other I wouldn’t have noticed them, and probably wouldn’t have stopped to photograph them.
The fact that every patient I saw was unique and would tell me a different story was one of the most important things to me. I looked forward to each clinic knowing I was going to meet someone who would tell me their unique life story.
We are all different. No matter what labels we apply to each other. And we have a lot in common. We connect through our values, needs, desires, problems, challenges and delights. Both the patient and the doctor.
Two the same, two different.
Heroes Not Zombies 
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