dr_jwilsonmd (dr_jwilsonmd) wrote in voicesinmyhead, @ 2007-08-17 11:31:00 |
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Entry tags: | james wilson, prompt #06 |
Prompt #6 - What makes You Lose Your Temper?
What makes me loose my temper? The dishonest of false hope.
Those damn idiot doctors who give a patient or their family false hope as a way to escape their own discomfort over delivering bad news. They don’t want to accept the helpless anger that comes from a person –or a family- when you stand there and tell them the truth.
They’re going to die.
Instead, people edge around the answer, they offer vague maybes and obscure possibilities. The human body doesn’t work like that, the human mind doesn’t work like that! For every word spoken of ‘possible’ the dying see hope and in the end, when that hope is finally broken, it is a soul crushing blow the likes of which can leave a patient devastated.
Just, tell the truth! Don’t lie to be a balm to your own ego. Don’t hold out false hope because you want the answer to be different. It’s not your answer to accept, in the end, it’s theirs and the only recourse any of us truly have in the end, is to be upfront and honest.
Even when it’s not the answer any of us wants to hear.