Me too! It’s hard and it’s lonely sometimes. Your words make me feel less alone with my own thoughts. I care about my patients and only want the best for them.
So true. All the worrisome nights about possible missed calls, the fear that a mistake I may have made will hurt someone else, and the relief/joy when it doesn’t happen. Thanks for putting it into words.
Thank you Hans for so clearly writing about the challenges of Primary care practice. I so enjoy reading your stories. No one outside the field can understand the relief of knowing you didn't miss a diagnosis. It's one thing when you have but one complaint to manage, but we in Primary care deal with multiple simultaneous issues and are only evaluated by others (and ourselves) by what we miss, never by the most important... that is just caring for people who are distressed.
After 40 years practicing, though I loved being an FP, I found that I just didn't have the emotional strength anymore to manage this ongoing stress of forever worrying about missing a diagnosis.
Me too! It’s hard and it’s lonely sometimes. Your words make me feel less alone with my own thoughts. I care about my patients and only want the best for them.
So true. All the worrisome nights about possible missed calls, the fear that a mistake I may have made will hurt someone else, and the relief/joy when it doesn’t happen. Thanks for putting it into words.
Thank you Hans for so clearly writing about the challenges of Primary care practice. I so enjoy reading your stories. No one outside the field can understand the relief of knowing you didn't miss a diagnosis. It's one thing when you have but one complaint to manage, but we in Primary care deal with multiple simultaneous issues and are only evaluated by others (and ourselves) by what we miss, never by the most important... that is just caring for people who are distressed.
After 40 years practicing, though I loved being an FP, I found that I just didn't have the emotional strength anymore to manage this ongoing stress of forever worrying about missing a diagnosis.