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Stories
About the patients: there are a million of them. I have learned from them-I have laughed, I have cried, I have ached. All of them make me feel alive, and I hope they do that for you, too.
ADVICE
How to navigate the Long Term Landscape. How to manouver the treacherous road that is Geriatrics. I have seen much.
Courage
For the road ahead. Our patients need us. They need those of us that feel the things. That are angered by the unfairness of life-but will be here regardless of what happens in this field. We are here ultimately not because this pays so well (which it can-and should) but because we cannot handle being anywhere else.
A place to vent
I worked at a Hospital where all the Staff had to go to a meeting in a giant conference room called “Grand Rounds”. On that day, a new meeting started every hour. If you didn’t go, you were taken off the schedule. The first time I went, I was dumbfounded. It seemed there was someone from every department. Environmental, Physicians, Front Office, Nursing. Everyone was encouraged to share. When I walked in a Physician was sharing how he tried to save his patient and lost him in surgery. He was crying, and a guy from environmental patted him on the shoulder “You did all you could Man”, the room was quiet as we all stood there and understood this moment of grief.
We need that in healthcare. Sometimes you can’t do a damn thing about it. So you cry with others and move on.
I loved that job and would have worked there for free.
WE DESIRE A SPACE WHERE WE CAN CARE ADEQUATELY
“I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn’t at the core of these two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can’t get to the right answer here.”
—Donald Berwick, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
