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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
I actually read this book I think it was called what doctors feel...it was like they all start out compassionate and their training actually causes them to lose that---they actually said the ones that retain the most compassion tend to go into psych etc----for me in regular medical care its always the nurses that are stellar and the docs give you five minutes---they may not care but they will try to fix your problem---that's why I'm confused with the pnurses being so bad while I pretty much expect minimal care from the pdocs.
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The med docs where I work I say a lot of them are compassionate. They are all family practice and internal medicine doctors. My GP is good, I like him a lot. I think he actually cares about his patients.
I had a nurse in the hospital who was a nightmare. She was an older lady and tried to send me to ICU because she didn't want to deal with me. I had pancreatitus and I had actually known someone when I was 18 who spent a month in ICU with pancreatitus and he almost died, so you can imagine how bad that freaked me out. Luckily my surgeon was a really good doctor and told her I didn't need that type of care. I had a CNA who worked the same shift as that horrible nurse. She's the one who cared and who got me through that stay in good spirits.
I do think a lot of docs get burned out. You do kind of see the same people over and over, just with different faces. I think when they hear th same thing over and over why someone can't afford their meds, or why they can't change their diet, or why they can't start exercising... you just get burned out. But, you have to remember that you may hear the same thing 1000 times but this person is the only person experiencing their problem in their life. I think that's a hard concept for a lot of people.