As a struggling medical student, I was shown an act of kindness that continues to shape me even now as a clinician. In the midst of the chaos and disruption ensuing from the COVID‐19 pandemic, I am reminded that kindness can help to ground us as clinicians and reconnect with what makes us human.
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