I know some people have fears about the people who work in medicine. maybe you don't trust us, maybe it's a needle stick thing, maybe its the smell. Whatever it is, I want you to know how much we care.
Not only about you, but about our co-workers, too. We want to help each other out. Especially for those of us in surgery. We are constantly in each others faces all day long. We don't get to see the outside, sometimes not even windows. We are stuck with each other.
So, we find a lot of things to talk about; personal, sexual, the cases we've done, the heartache we feel, the people we miss. We get very close, very quickly. For 8-10 hours of the day, the only people we can rely on is each other.
I heard one person relate it to being in the military. It is a war zone sometimes in the OR. Things get hairy, people get stressed out, tempers fly, and words, both good and bad, are thrown out at each other. But we know we don't mean it. We stick together. All for the sake of the patient. There is nothing more urgent in the OR than making sure our patient is well taken care of.
ninibud92 posted on Sep 29, 2006
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momsrock said on Sep 29, 2006....
I have to say that my closest friends work in our physician's office. In fact, I have spent so much time there with my children that they have become part of our family.
I haven't always had the best experience with doctors. But those individuals are few and far between. Most people that work in healthcare have to be amazing people, or they wouldn't be able to do it.
My mother has been a nurse for 20 years, and still tears up over one patient that passed away 7 years ago. You do care about these strangers. I believe you have an instant connection/bond when you treat some one medically.
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ninibud92 said on Sep 30, 2006....
At some point, I'm afraid I will forget how to feel. I will forget the heartache and pain, the laughter and joy. I've been told by many co-workers that you get to that point eventually. And, I don't want to. Writing here helps me stay connected to that. I think if I lose the emotion, I will lose myself. I will become that shell that so many people become.
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secretlife said on Sep 30, 2006....
ninibud: why can't i imagine you burning out?
that being said, please take care you yourself because i'm not sure how anyone deals with the heartaches in medicine without some serious pain.
I'm happy to know you are all close friends and can talk and confide in each other.
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gingersoul said on Sep 30, 2006....
So is really like in Grey's Anatomy? LOL
Or ER? Or House?
I can't have enough of this tv show placed in hospitals...
That's because we patients dont' know what happens when we loose our coscience and drift away in the artificial sleep induced by some anesthesia...
we have to trust you...we hope you are kind and caring and do what you do not for the money and the power...
we put our life in your hands...
we are scared of you and we can't get enough details about your job and life...
So i am really relieved to read what you write....
keep us posted...;-)
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ninibud92 said on Oct 01, 2006....
Sometimes it is like those shows. Because we really don't have a life outside of the hospital. We work a lot of hours and the stuff we talk about, no one could understand. Imagine seeing what I see all day and then talking about it at night with my friends, maybe out at the club or over dinner. Pretty awkward.
Maybe thats why some many relationships are forged there. Somebody else understands. LOL!
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gingersoul said on Oct 01, 2006....
And look, you are talking about it even here at SC!
It's a curse!! LOL
Coincidence, i was at the phone with my mom this morning....she told me my sister has been hospitalized yesterday.... she has recently found out she has Hepatits C and she needs to have a more in deep tests and a SCAT too.
See, i am making you think about those stuff even now....sorry....:-)
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secretlife said on Oct 01, 2006....
ninibud: I work in IT......Information Technology.
The actual work is very technical and detailed and when a small group of 10 or 15 people work for a year on a system design, they speak a language only that small group can understand clearly. Any outsider thinks we have our own language. So it's not only in medicine that you search out people who understand what you do day in and out....i think it's in any profession where there is a high amount of stress, and a large amount of mystery....
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gingersoul said on Oct 01, 2006....
I agree with you, secret.....
When i was working as reporter in Italy we had our special codes to talk to each other, our special places to hung out together, we were feeling like a tribu separated by the rest of the people...we were working long hours too and a lot of romances and messy situations started and finished among us....
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ninibud92 said on Oct 01, 2006....
I thought about that too. I think common interests, common lives. I'm glad I'm not the only one!
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mymave2006 said on Oct 02, 2006....
thats a great job!!! saving people's life can be a rewarding one.....im a teacher now , my mom really wanted me to take up nursing before but i have this feeling that i dont want to work inside a hospital coz im not that really brave enough ..... i might be the one to faint to see blood in a man's body.... I salute people working inside a hospital!
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