Doctor's Message Complex Mix of Words, Emotions

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Let's suppose for a moment that you are a physician, a medical doctor. You have trained for the prerequisite 11 years in school and residency. Let's say you are in primary care, an internist or a family physician. You have been in practice for a couple of years or many; it isn't important. The setting could be your office or a hospital where you impart to your patients your knowledge and therapies.

Now let's further say that you are caring for a person who is dying. Of course the condition killing your patient would be significant, because with diagnosis comes options for treatment -- even for the dying. Furthermore, this person comes to you for your clinical acumen and skills that will provide those options. However, in such a situation, what overshadows your schooling is who you are as a person and who the patient is.

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Doctor's Message Complex Mix of Words, Emotions

The message, both in words and deeds, may be different if the patient has been a lifelong friend versus an assigned John Doe in bed 3A. Ther...

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