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=( here we go again w/ my job
What is worse? Posts venting about my job (like my old job), or these sadass posts..
This patient, who has lung & liver CA, just called to tell me to tell the Dr that she decided she is not going to do any treatment she wants "to let nature take its course."
She is 80.
Of course I "understand."
Apparently my little heart is not as hard as I thought it was, bc shitlikethis makes me sad.
Re: =( here we go again w/ my job
I think that working in the ER was a little easier bc many times the people that were in there did the stuff to themselves.
Or, this other patient that has called me twice today bc he is in "pain." .. He has chronic pancreatitis..Well, quit drinking. He has a history of alcohol abuse- I do not feel bad for him what-so-ever.
I think it's the patients w/ the CA that get me.
I know it's strangers, and it's kind of weird that I feel for them. I think because when they are in the office I talk to them, and try to make them feel as comfortable as possible. I usually end up talking w/ them quite a bit about whatever.
Maybe once I've been in this field for a little longer it won't bother me as badly. I've only been in my current position for 6mths. I've only had 1 patient that I met die. Maybe once I've got a few more deaths under my belt It won't bother me.
That sounds so horrible.
Hang in there, Jena, it does get easier! When I first started working in the ICU it was really hard on me because we have a lot of patients die. However, after being there for a while you get kind of hardned to it. It's not that you don't care, it just happens and you deal with it better. A lot of the time these people have been through nothing but torture in their final days and we are actually happy that they are finally at peace once they die. I have gone to work in tears knowing that I was going to be caring for a patient that was suffering for yet another night. THAT is what gets to me. Every once in a while you'll have a particualr pt or family that you get to know and bond with really well, and that is hard, but for the most part it is our jobs to be there for the pts and families and make them as comfortable as possible.
Your patient is 80 years old and she has led a long life. Good for her for not wanting to go through the torutre of medical intervetion anymore. I hope she lives out the rest of her life with her loved ones as opposed to being stuck in a hospital bed, gorked out beyond recognition. She is a brave woman!
This is SO true! I just wish that some people I know would realize this and find a new job.
Do you have a heart? Any compassion? Or are you just really self-absorbed?
Happily Married
The Plan Stan
Eat Well, Live Well, Be Well Blog
I think some people can just shut off emotions, especially when it's someone that they don't even know and won't miss. I don't think Nicole is heartless.
I couldn't do your job, Jena. I get too into people. I don't mean to, and I certainly can pretend like it doesn't bother me. But I'd bet as soon as I got to my car I'd call Rob and start balling my eyes out.
/hug
I don't really think she is heartless; she didn't give a virtual ":::shrug:::" up above.
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The Plan Stan
Eat Well, Live Well, Be Well Blog
I don't think all doctors are like that by any means. My sister and her ex-husband met in med school. Hearing the way they talked about their patients like they were hunks of meat was pretty disturbing to me because I am an emotional person. If they ever did create a death panel, my sister would volunteer to be on it. Some people are just not very emotionally affected by illness and mortality.
lol @ hunks of meat. Sorry, that made me giggle.
I agree that all Doctors are not compassionate- I think it depends on various things. Personality, how long they've been in the field, they "type" of Doctor that they are.
I think talking about them like they are a hunk of meat is a coping mechanisim.
I don't think Nicole is heartless, just doesn't care much for people she doesn't know, and that is okay, being in the medical field might be easier if I felt the same way.
That.
Maybe for some. For my sister I am convinced it is because she is truly a self-absorbed person with very little capacity for compassion. I know that sounds like a brutal assessment, but it's just honest. Considering that she managed to find someone very similar in med school to marry (and then divorce), I am certain that there are plenty of other doctors that are in that boat. I know there's really no point in this other than to say that not everyone in the world is very emotionally affected by strangers so for some there really isn't anything to "cope" with because they don't lose any sleep over it in the first place.
You are right, I was not saying that it was necessarily a coping mechanism for your sister. I was just saying that in general, for some Doctors, talking the way that they do is, or could be just a coping mechanism. But yes, some Drs are just down right uncompassionate, self absorbed, a*holes. But, different personalities is what makes the world go round, right? Different strokes, for different folks.
IDK, the world would be a lot more pleasant and easy for me is everyone though the way that I do. And it's all about me of course.
In case your eyes are rolling right now, Laura, I'm being TIC. Even I'm not that egotistical.
But how do you know how I type them? Are you stalking me? Have you set up a camera to monitor me? Why are you this interested in me? I swear I'm really very boring and if you made a sweater with my skin it would be really really itchy, so don't get any ideas!
Put the lotion in the basket.
(lol I creeped myself out with that. The pics I wanted to post are not nest appropriate.)
With this statement, I find it odd that social issues are the most important thing to you with regard to politics (or at least I think you have said that in previous posts).
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