A long hike sounds awesome actually. I might hit up a local beach.  But yeah the shit thing is that you need empathy to be a medical officer (be it a nurse or EN nurse or RN nurse Dr etc) so you feel it even though the points on here are all valid.  If you are a normal range person with empathy, and want to help that's a good quality right? But still.  The shitty arse thing is that the clinical lecturers do want people that are wired for compassion. The shit thing is that means you feel it. Especially when you are such a contrast to people around you who are desensitized to it all and are breathtakingly callous. Yet where were his GPs prior people?  Fuck it is hard. Does my head in.