045 - Doctors - Danielle Ofri
You Are Not So Smart
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Do You Know When a Patient Will Come Back?
I think that doctors aditionally look at addressing their feelings as a sign of weakness, and so tend to ignore them. And then we know that some time later, they will always come back. There is a study that i look at in my book about oncologists and who face death a lot. One doctor wrote, it was like a shadow that they know follows you around. So i think we hade to agin recognize that this is a reality. To pretend that it's not its is just folly"
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