It wasn’t until medical residency that I began to fast during Lent. While foregoing food from dawn to dusk one day a week for those forty days might have been a creative re-casting of a practice often undertaken unintentionally due to the rigors of training, something about the act of volitionally surrendering a good I might otherwise presume upon felt meaningful.
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Ben Frush
Ben Frush is a hospice and palliative medicine fellow at UNC Chapel Hill and a rising McDonald Agape Fellow in Bioethics at Georgetown University.
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