The first time I cried
A driver with a gunshot wound whom he recognises from a hospital visit days earlier, when the man was with his wife and newborn son.
“It was the first time I cried at a patient's death.”
Pedro Moretti Guedes · Reminiscências de um Médico
Pedro received a driver with a gunshot wound. He recognised the face: days earlier that man had been at the hospital with his wife after the birth of their son. Care was immediate, but the wounds were too severe. He could not be saved.
"It was the first time I cried at a patient's death", he wrote. In the accounts he left, the strongest events almost always end in a human relationship. This one ends in a family he had seen happy and which, days later, was losing its father.
This text is an editorial adaptation of an account preserved in the family compilation "Reminiscências de um Médico" (2008). It is autobiographical memory, not a medical record or medical advice.