Heartbreaking photo captures doctor's grief after loss

An EMT worker has shared a photo his coworker took of a doctor grieving over the loss of a 19-year-old patient.

The photo, which shows a doctor kneeling down outside a Southern California hospital, was posted to the social network Reddit early Thursday morning.

"The man pictured was unable to save one of his patients. Though this is a common occurrence in our field of work, the patients we lose are typically old, sick, or some combination of the two. The patient that died was 19 years old, and for him, it was one of those calls we get sometimes that just hits you," wrote redditor NickMoore911. "Within a few minutes, the doctor stepped back inside, holding his head high again."

One user commented, "Wow, this really hits home for me. I lost my father earlier last year from an aortic dissection. He started feeling a weird pain in his chest and within an hour he was dead. He was a perfectly healthy 49 year old man. The doctors kept reassuring us that he would be fine. When he died the doctors who were working on him at the UCSD medical center were crushed. I could definitely see it in their eyes. They called my house multiple times throughout the year to see how my family was doing. Doctors do not get the praise they deserve."

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