Charles H Young

 Letter to Joseph upon becoming a Physician's Assistant in Pensacola, Florida Upon observing the beggars of India, someone asked Mother Teresa, “what could be worse than to have no food?”; “what could be worse than being without any money at all?”; “What is worse than having no clothes?” She replied, “Loneliness.” ----------------------------------------------- There are many terrible things that people in the medical field can observe:  a bald child being treated for cancer;  a severely burned patient;  a mother cradling a dead SIDS baby in the emergency room. But I believe that the most terrible thing that you will see will be loneliness. Standing in a doorway or from a hallway, you will see an elderly man struggling to get himself undressed and into a hospital gown.  Undressing oneself, especially in a hospital, seems like such a lonely task. Hospitals are built for loneliness, whether it is waiting for the dawn to break and the nurses to bring the patient to...