When Darkness Starts

Perspect Biol Med. 2019;62(1):153-158. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2019.0008.

Abstract

In this essay, a medical student reflects on her experience as part of a service trip to rural Honduras. Although she feels proud of the work the group does and the impact that they are able to make, she is also forced to grapple with the vast amount of unremitted suffering that she will inevitably leave behind.

Publication types

  • Personal Narrative

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Honduras
  • Humans
  • Mass Screening
  • Rape / psychology
  • Rural Population
  • Spouse Abuse
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / diagnosis*