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30 Something Baby Doc

Thursday, June 09, 2005

Blame

Pregnancy is a physiologic not a pathologic process. The patient expects a healthy infant to be the sole outcome. They place a great amount of trust in the hands of the obstetrician. But regardless of the degree knowledge and skills I possess, I am not God and never will be. I can do everything right follow all the subspecialty guidelines by the letter and the outcome is still bad.

I hate that, but what hurts the most is that the physician (myself) is initially blamed by the patient. When you devote your life to the care or others, the latter hurts like hell.

# posted by tommy @ 8:10 AM
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