Compassion, easily lost?

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IrishErin

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Specializes in ER, Addictions, Geriatrics.
Try walking out of an unsuccessful resus to check on your other patients and be greeted by the guy with chronic dental pain complaining about the long wait and demanding to know when the doctor will be in to see him meanwhile, someone across the hall is grieving the loss of their husband/father/brother.[/quote']

A patient once had the gall to leave the area he was in, pull open the curtain where his nurse was in the middle of doing compressions on a coding patient, tap her on the shoulder (again, WHILE she was doing compressions) and ask for a Tylenol. Hard to NOT get frustrated with people like that.

Guest941822

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Thanks for posting this, because I have wondered the same. I am a compassionate person and don't want to work in a field where I lose that. But maybe I don't have to.

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