tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657976453804122469.post1636724362660339464..comments2015-04-28T02:56:09.521-04:00Comments on MITSS-Medically Induced Trauma Support Services Clinicians: PULSE voices from the heart of medicineMITSS........http://www.blogger.com/profile/05548638735306322559noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657976453804122469.post-40155148310974630342010-04-14T16:33:57.000-04:002010-04-14T16:33:57.000-04:00I think it is easy for health care professionals t...I think it is easy for health care professionals to become desensitized to the fact they are dealing with human beings. Often it is necessary to be objective, otherwise you wouldn't be able to provide good care. But this shouldn't mean losing all your capacity to be kind to someone else. I wish there was some way of better identifying people who are perhaps burned out or who have walled off their feelings, and help them understand they aren't doing their patients, or themselves, any favors.<br /><br />The other thing that strikes me about Dr. Pil's story is the complete and utter lack of credence the hospital gave to her version of events. It was as if they refused, or were incapable of, believing that a mere patient could possibly know what she was talking about.<br /><br />Patients are usually painted as the villain if they seek out a lawyer, but what else are you supposed to do if hospitals and physicians won't allow you to have due process? I've been there and done that, and believe me, one of the hardest things about it was the hospital's dismissal of everything I had to say - even in the face of enormous discrepancies between the medical record and what I and a family member witnessed and remembered.<br /><br />In theory, most health care professionals will insist they want patients and families to be their "partners in care." How this translates into actual practice is often a whole 'nother story, especially if something goes wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com