Healthcare workers have an incredibly important job. They help us through illnesses, injuries, and some of the hardest moments of our lives. Unfortunately, though, medicine can’t fix everything, and sometimes even the most skilled specialists have to deliver news they wish they didn’t have to.
One Redditor recently asked medical professionals to share the diagnoses that gave them the worst pit-in-the-stomach feeling, and they came through with plenty of heartbreaking responses. Scroll down to read some of them. Just be warned that the following stories contain upsetting and sensitive content.