Wow, the part about a patient dying... I think that subject is entirely personal because doctors differ as widely as most professionals. Early in my career, I was training a practice to use their "new computers" and a doctor told me that one of her peers quit within the first year because a patient on his watch passed in front of him. Th…
Wow, the part about a patient dying... I think that subject is entirely personal because doctors differ as widely as most professionals. Early in my career, I was training a practice to use their "new computers" and a doctor told me that one of her peers quit within the first year because a patient on his watch passed in front of him. There was nothing on that patient's chart that said he was seriously allergic to penicillin. The young doc never practiced after that. Then there are the very few doctors who fall in the middle. Not the hard-hearted by the book extreme but also not the type that blames themselves after they did everything they could for a patient. I know that my specialists have to review my chart before they see me but once they have, I can tell whether they have any recollection of my case and whether they see me as a human who values my life and still cares for others who also value me. Either they see each patient as an individual who is important in the lives of others or they do not and it is obvious. To your point, either you will be affected by the passing of a patient or you will not. While it should not take over your life, this unique and caring part of your personality will not go away. Only how you respond to it will. (thar ya go, poor English from someone for whom one major was English)
Wow, the part about a patient dying... I think that subject is entirely personal because doctors differ as widely as most professionals. Early in my career, I was training a practice to use their "new computers" and a doctor told me that one of her peers quit within the first year because a patient on his watch passed in front of him. There was nothing on that patient's chart that said he was seriously allergic to penicillin. The young doc never practiced after that. Then there are the very few doctors who fall in the middle. Not the hard-hearted by the book extreme but also not the type that blames themselves after they did everything they could for a patient. I know that my specialists have to review my chart before they see me but once they have, I can tell whether they have any recollection of my case and whether they see me as a human who values my life and still cares for others who also value me. Either they see each patient as an individual who is important in the lives of others or they do not and it is obvious. To your point, either you will be affected by the passing of a patient or you will not. While it should not take over your life, this unique and caring part of your personality will not go away. Only how you respond to it will. (thar ya go, poor English from someone for whom one major was English)