(Source: synodik)
It’s the little things that make doctors great.
When I was on my OB/GYN rotation 3rd year, I had a post partum patient who was in the ICU. She went nuts on some people, went in to early labor, and then went into a coma. No one really knew what was wrong with her. She had been tested for and had ruled out nearly everything, and her doctors were still stumped.
She had very little family and no one ever came to visit her. As a result of her frequent fevers, developing C/S wound infection, and profuse sweating, she smelled pretty sour. Her hair hadn’t been washed or combed in quite some time. Her smell plus her contact precautions status made it so that people only went in her room if they absolutely had to.
Wow I really hope that if I ever became a doctor I would be as good to a patient. So often in medicine it isn’t about the stack of drugs listed on the chart but that true care for the people and being with them. There are limits to how many drugs there are to cure certain things, but there sure are more things that could be done to help the patient as a whole.
