As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.
Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased.
Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.
There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are supposed to, instead of saying, 'You're doing very well, so keep doing whatever you are doing.' They should be asking what their patient is doing and pass the information to other patients.
I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
The body says what words cannot.