In my role as a personal-family physician, I sometimes take the role of a Hindu goddess with multiple hands and arms and multiple faces.
Some patients would not like me to divulge whatever my medical findings are to the patient. I face the relatives with grim face in serious cases while I smile to the patient while discussing the case. Though I always insist of letting the patient know, some relatives fear that divulging his real situation would aggravate and lead to early death which is not often the case.
Some people expect us to perform surgery in different locations at the same time or to finish pronto in a wink. We haven't finished injecting anesthesia and they would ask:" Are you done?"
During surgical residency, some consultants expect us to hold the retractors steady while suctioning the blood and holding their sutures tout. . In other times, they would expect us to answer all questions right while retracting the liver away,; the intestines to the left and below and the gall bladder up.
Oh! How we wished to have all the arms and hands of the Hindu Goddess.
Some patients would not like me to divulge whatever my medical findings are to the patient. I face the relatives with grim face in serious cases while I smile to the patient while discussing the case. Though I always insist of letting the patient know, some relatives fear that divulging his real situation would aggravate and lead to early death which is not often the case.
Some people expect us to perform surgery in different locations at the same time or to finish pronto in a wink. We haven't finished injecting anesthesia and they would ask:" Are you done?"
During surgical residency, some consultants expect us to hold the retractors steady while suctioning the blood and holding their sutures tout. . In other times, they would expect us to answer all questions right while retracting the liver away,; the intestines to the left and below and the gall bladder up.
Oh! How we wished to have all the arms and hands of the Hindu Goddess.
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