Your patients are lucky to have you! Please know that your compassion and your empathy are often what we patient truly need and that often is missing in the relationship with our medical professionals. Taking the time to joke with us, or shedding your white coat and letting your professional walls down to share in an emotional moment or carry our grief for even a few seconds. Those human connections are soothing for our battered minds and hearts.
Thanks for saying that Isabelle. It took me longer than I wish to figure out it’s okay to not be perfect as a PA (since perfection is not possible) but if I’m doing my best, taking good care of the people I encounter, and letting down those professional walls - that’s when my care goes further. (Maybe I should have written this post about my own walls? 😄). Yes, human connections are so important, especially in this corner of our worlds 🤍
Your patients are lucky to have you! Please know that your compassion and your empathy are often what we patient truly need and that often is missing in the relationship with our medical professionals. Taking the time to joke with us, or shedding your white coat and letting your professional walls down to share in an emotional moment or carry our grief for even a few seconds. Those human connections are soothing for our battered minds and hearts.
Thanks for saying that Isabelle. It took me longer than I wish to figure out it’s okay to not be perfect as a PA (since perfection is not possible) but if I’m doing my best, taking good care of the people I encounter, and letting down those professional walls - that’s when my care goes further. (Maybe I should have written this post about my own walls? 😄). Yes, human connections are so important, especially in this corner of our worlds 🤍