Posted by amdew717 on May 28, 2004, at 12:12:45
In reply to I don't think it's deliberate, posted by Racer on May 28, 2004, at 8:39:42
> Personally, I think a lot of the problem is those doctors who resolve this for themselves by distancing themselves so much that they can't offer true compassion anymore. These are the drugs they have, so these drugs are good enough and the patient is being unreasonable to complain about, say, anorgasmia when at least the patient wants to have sex again. They'll tell patients, "Just put up with the shaking hands and jerking arms from the medication" without stopping to think of how they would feel losing control of their own bodies that way. On the one hand, they have to stifle their empathy in order to function and survive. On the other hand, though, it means that they do a real disservice to their patients, who are likely to be most vulnerable to begin with.
>I think I finally hit a nerve with my pdoc yesterday while discussing side-effects when I simply said, "you have no idea what it's like to be in my shoes." All he could say was, "that's true," and nothing else. That's really different for him...he's usually so defensive, and had been up to that point in the discussion. He had been saying how we're very limited with the drugs we can try on me because of my low tolerance for side-effects...as though that's my fault.
Thanks for your post,
Jim
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