KevinMD April 21, 2024
One doctor I’ve worked with had gotten caught up in the idea of being a doctor. She realized, during her training with us, that she had stopped looking her patients in the eye. In fact, she had stopped making eye contact with her patients when she was in residency. She had to tell these two parents that their baby had died in the womb, and she did not know how to do that. This doctor was a deeply caring person, a deeply loving person, but she got so uncomfortable, and then she came to cling to this story of discomfort. It was through learning how to be with her fear and discomfort, staying in a relationship with those things, and...