Medicine & Compassion

[Nervous1]

I just wanted to share something with you on the topic of medicine and compassion. It's a little depressing, but I would appreciate your thoughts.

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[Nervous1]

I just wanted to share something with you on the topic of medicine and compassion. It's a little depressing, but I would appreciate your thoughts.

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[Nervous1]

I just wanted to share something with you on the topic of medicine and compassion. It's a little depressing, but I would appreciate your thoughts.
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[alabamamom]

I don't think it's that they don't care, but in order to do their jobs day after day, they have to distance themselves. Otherwise, they would burn out very quickly.

 

[alabamamom]

I don't think it's that they don't care, but in order to do their jobs day after day, they have to distance themselves. Otherwise, they would burn out very quickly.

 

[alabamamom]

I don't think it's that they don't care, but in order to do their jobs day after day, they have to distance themselves. Otherwise, they would burn out very quickly.

 

[hmw]

I agree with alabamamom in that drs and nurses have to maintain a certain level of professional distance in order to be able to do their job without burning out... and that what at times on the surface can look like a lack of compassion is not.

That said, the team overseeing your mother's care treated her terribly. She should not have been lied to about the severity of her condition. She should have been treated with honesty, dignity and respect. IMO, that goes beyond the issue of the drs showing compassion since that extends to so many facets of care (though she certainly needed some of that too.) I'm so sorry that she was subjected to this kind of care. Everyone deserves better, especially at the end of life. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0">

 

[hmw]

I agree with alabamamom in that drs and nurses have to maintain a certain level of professional distance in order to be able to do their job without burning out... and that what at times on the surface can look like a lack of compassion is not.

That said, the team overseeing your mother's care treated her terribly. She should not have been lied to about the severity of her condition. She should have been treated with honesty, dignity and respect. IMO, that goes beyond the issue of the drs showing compassion since that extends to so many facets of care (though she certainly needed some of that too.) I'm so sorry that she was subjected to this kind of care. Everyone deserves better, especially at the end of life. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0">

 

[hmw]

I agree with alabamamom in that drs and nurses have to maintain a certain level of professional distance in order to be able to do their job without burning out... and that what at times on the surface can look like a lack of compassion is not.
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<br />That said, the team overseeing your mother's care treated her terribly. She should not have been lied to about the severity of her condition. She should have been treated with honesty, dignity and respect. IMO, that goes beyond the issue of the drs showing compassion since that extends to so many facets of care (though she certainly needed some of that too.) I'm so sorry that she was subjected to this kind of care. Everyone deserves better, especially at the end of life. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0">

 

[Nervous1]

Thanks for your responses. I was just venting my frustration in general. A lack of compassion is obviously only part of the picture, and it's a symptom of the whole system and not just the doctors. I understand the stress the medical system puts on doctors and why they have to distance themselves. However, that does not give them a right to treat patients the way they treated my mother.

 

[Nervous1]

Thanks for your responses. I was just venting my frustration in general. A lack of compassion is obviously only part of the picture, and it's a symptom of the whole system and not just the doctors. I understand the stress the medical system puts on doctors and why they have to distance themselves. However, that does not give them a right to treat patients the way they treated my mother.

 

[Nervous1]

Thanks for your responses. I was just venting my frustration in general. A lack of compassion is obviously only part of the picture, and it's a symptom of the whole system and not just the doctors. I understand the stress the medical system puts on doctors and why they have to distance themselves. However, that does not give them a right to treat patients the way they treated my mother.

 

[hmw]

Oh I can certainly understand your frustration! It had to be awful to watch your mother go through this (not to mention what it had to have been like for your mother.) <img src="i/expressions/brokenheart.gif" border="0"> There is absolutely no excuse for how she was treated.

 

[hmw]

Oh I can certainly understand your frustration! It had to be awful to watch your mother go through this (not to mention what it had to have been like for your mother.) <img src="i/expressions/brokenheart.gif" border="0"> There is absolutely no excuse for how she was treated.

 

[hmw]

Oh I can certainly understand your frustration! It had to be awful to watch your mother go through this (not to mention what it had to have been like for your mother.) <img src="i/expressions/brokenheart.gif" border="0"> There is absolutely no excuse for how she was treated.