TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS
When
confronted with a choice between your head and your heart, and both appear to
be of the same weight, choose your heart.
Soon after I
opened my first medical practice I was caring for a patient in the hospital who
was quite ill. She was a very old
woman whom I had treated in the clinic during my days as a medical resident. We had established a mutual fondness
and respect for one another, and she became my private patient. Her condition was terminal, and on
rounds one morning we talked about her imminent death. Like so many others in her position,
she was not afraid to die. As I
prepared to leave I wanted to kiss her cheek, but didn’t, because I thought it
was not what a “doctor” should do.
That night she died, and I never saw her again, and I promised myself
that with few exceptions, I would never let my head over ride my heart again.
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