KevinMD September 26, 2024
This is a highly encapsulated but accurate portrayal of the emotional weight of the conversation and the tension between a physician’s personal challenges and the desire to heal, both for themselves and their patients.
Patient/Physician (P): I’m an old blues man, and I think you understand I’ve been singing the blues ever since the world began.
Psychiatrist (Me): I hear you. That timeless blues spirit runs deep, carrying the weight of lived experience and heartache. It’s like a rhythm that never fades, just keeps echoing through every generation. What’s got you singing the blues today?
P: Medicine has devolved into a shit show.
Me: I feel that frustration. Medicine has become so entangled in bureaucracy, profit-driven motives, and administrative burdens...
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