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Originally Posted by faerie_moon_x
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.
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Well according to the book it wasn't about seeing the same thing exactly so much as not having enough time to interact---basically they have a checklist and that doesn't format well with a human being---some people make it harder to check off boxes on that list---the specifics were drug users, mentally ill and certain races(apparently some races/cultures will rate even minor pain a 10 on the pain scale due to language usage in their native country)----if someone isn't sure what's real or not the boxes start getting complicated for example while I was in the hospital I had to fill out a form for an MRI---several days later pdoc asked why I hadn't had an MRI---I had no idea---well the form asked if you were pregnant check one box apparently I had just crossed it out and put maybe---I had a pretty intense hallucination/delusion of being raped and threw away my second plan B so I had no idea if I as pregnant or not. So yeah maybe it is variable but there is still a bias against the mentally ill because we aren't seen as cooperative when it comes to filling standardized forms.