Excellent piece. Your point:”The conventions of medical training do not facilitate coming to terms with emotions… Rather, trainees bottle up feelings and focus on projecting assuredness as they move from task to task and patient to patient. Emotionally stunted, they are inaccessible to their patients, as they are inaccessible to themselves.” …is a good one. As you point out, modern healthcare is partially responsible for such a view. Of course the fact that 99,000 patients die every year from hospital infections (CDC) does make us all wary of a hospital stay.