Health warning to a young clinician

[摘要] Even our ‘fresher’ GP colleagues can be bemused when receiving a call from unhappy patients requesting an inaccessible service. It can be discouraging and confusing when a hitherto positive therapeutic relationship over several years is reduced to nothing or generates a complaint, as a consequence of failing to meet a patient’s expectations.My heart goes out to all of us, who have been ‘set up to fail’. Take heart and glove up — the work must go on …HEALTH WARNING TO A YOUNG CLINICIAN Beware —in our profession, we must bewareof what might come through the door, what might be waiting on the other end ofthe linewhat we summon up with a push of thebutton.Namesmasquerading as innocent, posing bright as soft blossom, waiting with hands outstretched: smiling, nodding, gentlySelf-obsessed.Beware.And when you reach out to take those handsAnd offer to ease those burdens,Dress the hurt, and pill away the pain, Wear gloves.For sharper than the flick of a neon switchThe bond can dissect;A searing rip that tearsright the way down to the root of the heartdriving out breath with pain.That traitor unseen,That lurking aneurysm ruptures; and floods the room, hot angerthat pulsesand sucksand burns wild.We are not allowed to move, Just to stand.And after the rage, weUnpickourwayout, desperate for airClawing for equilibrium; upsetting the layers of discarded wordsand the charred ash of good intentions.Beware the thorns.The scars make for tougher hands.But still, my friendGlove the heart, before you call.

[学科分类] 卫生学