As we seek emotional healing, we gain compassion on ourselves as needy human beings, and then we feel a camaraderie with all other human beings. We lose the burdensome thought that somehow we’re better than other people (and worse than more highly accomplished people); in face, we stop thinking in terms of “better than” or “worse than” and see everyone as hurting people in need of love and compassion.
We stop expecting ourselves to meet a patient’s every need because we realize what it takes to meet our own needs. We even begin to expect our patients to take increasing responsibility to care for themselves, or at least we hope they will, because the outcome of their health is not solely in our hands. But we’re also more patient with our patients because of the slow nature of the healing journey, for all of us.
Physician, Get Healed 