Perhaps one of the most important things for learning medicine, is to get sick yourself. I find myself surrounded by people with the empathy of a starving rat, and it disturbs me that these are the people who will be treating my friends and family at some point in time. Some of them are young, and some of them are just plain unable to see how sickness can change someones outlook on life. If you can believe it, some have just never truly been sick.
This is not to say I have ever been deathly ill. I just believe that I can put myself into a patients shoes, and gain a little bit of perspective into how they're feeling.
People are scared when they are sick. They get angry, they cry and they can also deny what's going on.
What's strange is that students seem to forget the family of the sick person. They hurt too.
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