A Doctors Look At Her Stress Filled Life
November 25th, 2008 at 12:10pm Under Stress
Lots of people think that the stress of the Holidays comes from the Christmas rush, or that people stress out from the pressure of the season, like decoration, the Christmas turkey or ham, or picking out the perfect present to make family members happy. For some of us we aren’t so lucky as for our main source of stress to be what goes around the lighted christmas wreath, but a lot of other considerations. But for us doctors, Christmas stress never ends when the clock strikes twelve, and the 26th of December was marked on the calendar. For us, Christmas is the entire 365 days of the calendar, or in short, everyday is Christmas day.
Christmas is about giving, and changing lives. Doctors like me are changing lives everyday, when we deal with our patients. The doctors job is to try to raise their spirits, especially when we can give them hope for recovery. Doctors do everything in their power to make clients feel better, when when recovery is near impossible, we just do our best to help them accept their situation and make them make the best out of the time they have left.
That is what makes everyday of our life a Christmas celebration, and it is stressful enough in our part, especially is we will be witnessing the last breath of our clients. There are times, you can’t hold long by being strong in front of a dying patient, and what you can do is just to empathize, or better yet, get out of the room and keep the sorrow for yourself. That is very nerve-racking in my part. Indeed, Christmas stress is different when you are in a medical profession, because you cannot get away from it, instead you need to learn to accept it as a normal part of your life. So this year when you’re sitting around the pre it christmas wreath just relax and think it could be worse.
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