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"How do you feel about today?" Liu Banxia gathered the interns together as they were about to end their shift.
"It was terrible, especially seeing the expressions on the patients' relatives' faces. I didn't know how to inform them," Xu Yino confessed, lowering her head.
"What about the rest of you?" Liu Banxia asked again.
"Teacher Liu, how do you cope? How did you feel the first time you had to tell a patient's family that their loved one had passed away? How did you adapt?" Huang Bo asked.
"Me? I didn't feel much at first, because I thought it was just the norm. Birth, aging, sickness, death—no one can escape this cycle," Liu Banxia said, smiling.
"I suppose I was lucky. The first deceased patient I encountered was 76 years old. This was four months into my residency at the Second Hospital. He had fallen at home and was already deceased upon arrival at the emergency department."