Story idea free to good home: The Empathic Bone

This is an idea for the premise of a story. I am not a fiction writer, so will probably not develop it. If you write fiction and are interested by the premise, please feel free to adopt it. Just let me know.

A psychotherapist is in a car accident and suffers some injuries, including broken bones. After recovery, he notices intermittent pain at the fracture sites, and at first attributes it to weather changes, but soon realizes that it seems to correlate with emotional pain experienced by his patients.

From this premise several directions could be taken. A few thoughts: Obviously, there is the question of whether the correlation is real. The pain itself could also be real or psychosomatic. Would this phenomenon be useful, or a burden? Could he treat patients experiencing extreme pain, or would he be forced to drop them? How empathic was the therapist before the accident? Is this pain somehow reflective of his own process of becoming more empathic, or the result of denying connection with his patients? Is this a story of the supernatural, or of psychology?

That's all I have for now. Might add more later if anything occurs to me.