Listen to author Samantha Gridley, read her essay, “Gauze and Guns,” published in the October 2015 issue of Academic Medicine. This essay won third place in the Gold–Hope Tang, MD 2015 Humanism in Medicine Essay Contest. Read the essay at: http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2015/10000/The_Gold_Hope_Tang,_MD_2015_Humanism_in_Medicine.25.aspx.