The other side
Its not often that we, as a medical fraternity deal with our own loved ones as patients. We see so many patients and relatives every day that it seldom strikes us that it could be us in their places too. Most of the days ,we deal with the frustrations of irritable by- standers, over concerned parents as well as children that their worries fail to register with us in time. We become concerned with treating the patients and not much else. It is probably a self protective mechanism we develop over years, otherwise who wants to be so emotionally attached to each patient that each of their inevitable ends(which might have been prolonged by us) leave us emotionally scarred each time around. And our psyches aren’t meant to take that much damage, so it comes naturally to us that we distance ourselves from their fears,turn a blind eye to their tears and we learn to be matter of fact and move on, because , self preservation is an art which medicos learn without ever having to be taught. The