As a doctor one of the most frustrating things you can experience is failure, the realisation that medical science is not good enough to fix a person. It's worse if that person is a friend (or the spouse of a friend) and they have a health problem that is part of your specialist interest. It is also important to note that as a doctor you should really not be involved in the medical care of your friends.
I wish medical science was better. I wish that the drugs we have now were available 20 years ago. I wish we were better. I wish we could stop young people becoming disabled. I wish everyone could live full, pain free lives with no fucking problems at all.
My wishes are unrealistic.
As a doctor I want to make things good for my patients. I know this is not always possible. I can accept that. It's just fucking difficult to accept if it's someone you know, with a disease you work with, but sadly the boat has been missed and the great drugs came along too fucking late. It's a shitty fucking deal. Sometimes you wish you could turn back the clock but life is not going to let that happen.
You also want to give all of your patients all of your effort all of the time but that is not possible either. As a doctor you are still human and your resources are limited. It is impossible to fire on full cylinders all the time.
Anyway, I'm on holiday. Rant over.
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I recall a former coworker of mine who commented that, when he had a bad day in constructions, buildings were behind schedule and people could lose thousands of pounds on turnover.
However, his wife was a nurse. On a bad day, people died. On a good day, people died, just less of them.
Kinda puts those of us working mundane office jobs back into perspective to read about people like you for whom every day you have to psychologically juggle dealing with people for whom the end is nigh.
Hi George,
Thanks for posting and sorry for the late reply
Best wishes, etc
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