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Wounded Deeply

For millennia, a fundamental responsibility of physicians has been caring for the wounds of their patients. Wounds to spirit and psyche are also addressed by caregivers at HMS affiliated teaching hospitals, who guard against the traumas that sickness and hospitalization can bring.
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