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It is great to hear of your compassion for your patients. Just keeping perspective between empathy and sympathy helps me. Empathy makes me feel other pains and struggle while sympathy makes me empathize with them but keeps healthy boundaries so I can help them and others without emptying my boundaries
Anything we can offer people I am sure they appreciate it ! Keep up the great work
Thank you for your kind words of encouragement. It can definitely be a delicate balance. I need to work on my boundaries. Do you have any advice for the best ways to do that?
I think the best way to deal with the emotional burden of working at a free clinic is to find a way to decompress. This could mean talking to a therapist, journaling, or doing some kind of physical activity.
Thank you! I enjoy hiking and even writing sometimes, but I have never talked to a therapist. I wonder if this is the kind of thing a therapist could help me with. Sometimes it just helps to talk through everything with someone
I do medical missions and am in-and-out because I only go for a week or so and never see the patients again. I often thing of some of them, but I also remind myself they would have received NO care otherwise and I have helped a lot of people extend their lifespans and children get some critical care.
i’m the same way! i worked for an FQHC who served homeless and uninsured patients and i was contracted to work in the ER of a local hospital. the emotional burden drove me to the lowest depressive episode because i felt powerless to help my homeless and uninsured patients who would keep returning to the ER.
a therapist really helped me to manage my emotions and release my frustration and stress around my job ❤️
it’s refreshing knowing that as a surgeon, you also care deeply about you patients as fellow humans
I volunteered as medical director of a community family medicine clinic that offered care in an underserved community. I supervised the NPs and saw the complex patients weekly.