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this week i was in the surgical ICU for my rotations and it got me thinking. so many things can go wrong about a person. from a totally secular POV, its amazing what modern medicine can accomplish. from my torah POV, its a bitachon booster. so many things can happen to a person but H’ keeps my body healthy and strong. and if CH”V something goes wrong, H’ gave us doctors to go to who will be His shiluchim to heal us.
studying for nursing school for the past 1.5 years has definitely opened my eyes and deepened my appreciation to H for all the good that He does on a constant and unending basis. but sometimes that belief is strengthened. i had to go to the ER last week for something minor. being on the other side of the bed. B”H it was resolved in the ER and i went home a few hours later and B”H I recovered. but that experience gave me somethings i did not have before. the first being i say thank you to H’ for my health a few more times during the day. the second is i now know to a small fraction what my patients feel when i care for them. now, rather than sympathize with my patients, i can empathize with my patients to small extent which i hope to use to better my nursing practice.
oh one last thing. i have a great appreciation to the men and women (dispatchers) of Hatzoloh. this is my public announcement of Hakoras Hatov to all the work that you do. IY”H klal yisroel should only need you for good things only
Exactly the same reason(s) why I went into the medical field, before leaving that (as I went to E”Y) and ending up in IT.
I also believe working in the medical field is the best thing a person can do hashkofically. What could be a better job than healing people from injury and illness? Compare that with the accountants, the IT specialists, and many other professions…
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What a beautiful post! I especially liked this line: “….rather than sympathize with my patients, i can empathize with my patients”
Not many people understand the true difference between sympathy and empathy..
Shkoiach!
TCG -“I also believe working in the medical field is the best thing a person can do hashkofically. What could be a better job than healing people from injury and illness?”
I actually believe a lot of people (Yid & Goy) join the medical field for the wrong reasons. I wish a lot would leave or be thrown out.
No One Mourns The Wicked- “Not many people understand the true difference between sympathy and empathy..”
In the medical field that’s one of the first things they teach you. You have to empathize with patients, not sympathize. Sympathy will actually cause burn-out much quicker!
Health: They teach the same in the Psych field 🙂
Health: I actually believe a lot of people (Yid & Goy) join the medical field for the wrong reasons. I wish a lot would leave or be thrown out.
Health, this one of the few times that I agree strongly with something you said.
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No One Mourns The Wicked- “Not many people understand the true difference between sympathy and empathy..”
In the medical field that’s one of the first things they teach you. You have to empathize with patients, not sympathize. Sympathy will actually cause burn-out much quicker!
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Health: They teach the same in the Psych field 🙂
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LOL;) so perhaps she’s a Psych student and not a nursing student… and perhaps I may happen to know you! LOl, there are times when i THINK I know the entire coffee room!!!
Know me? Hmm…
*insert paranoid thought here* 😀
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