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Originally Posted by Perna
It is hard to have such a bad day without a rewarding resolution. One keeps thinking of what one should have said/done and how one would have liked the professional to have responded. Maybe he had a bad day too. I use to think doctors and other helpers were more perfect than I am but then I had one take a phone call and talk to a patient who had a broken arm and she commented that she wasn't good with broken bones, only got a "C" in that class  I had never realized that it had to be that way; doctors aren't good at everything doctory and some are really bad with the communication and patient contact stuff. See if you can convert your turmoil into feeling sorry for him :-) |
Perna, I pity the poor man like anything---only someone in terrible pain could treat someone so badly.
This was the second time he acted like this, so I was not as tolerant as I was the last time.
I realize doctors aren't perfect.
And I am more willing to give them a break if they own up to what they might have done and make an effort to listen to the patient and maybe even attempt to solve the problem; his emotion regulation, his behavior toward the patients and getting his own needs met.
But he did not.
So all I can now is remove myself from the situation, feel my feelings, and move on to where I can get my needs met and be treated like a human being.
Billi