The Ambivalent Healthcare Human

Abstract

I am a human, but I am also a healthcare hero. In the traditional sense, heroes performed great feats and generally had a mythological quality about them, often with a divine connection. This interpretation became conflated with the modern comic superhero—many of whom had some form of an “unnatural” superpower. Today, heroes are recognized as being more human like and allowed to be “flawed.” But this does not necessarily stop the preconceptions.