Scars
Names and details of this story have been altered to protect the identities of those mentioned. I am an asshole. I wasn't one before but slowly over the past few years I've become one. Now while a lot of that has to do with the nature of the job I'm required to do which requires me to become a heartless bastard quite often each day, it is also a result of the bad things that have happened to me over the years. Every traumatic experience changes your personality bit by bit. You'll find yourself trying to turn off your own emotions as much as possible, slowly losing the ability to empathize with others as a result. I don't talk as much with patients as I used to. There used to be a time when I could see a 100 patients in a shift and still manage to at least try to build some rapport with a fair few of them. Ask them about what's going on in their lives. I still remember the lonely old lady who'd come every day to check her BP because she felt lonely at home