Continue To Do Good

One thing I will never get used to in pediatrics is having to "turn the other cheek" so to speek.  We take care of sick kids and despite saving the childs life, the parents often don't see the big picture, they see, instead, the IV pokes, the shots, and the painful (sometimes debilitating) surgical procedures...to them sometimes we arn't saving the childs life, we are torturing them, and no amount of talking diswades them from this very emotional and primitively ingrained notion.  Sometimes, they get the spotlight and lambast you for your actions, and as a doctor you have to keep your head down and keep silent, you're bound by laws of privacy and by your own conscience to do no harm, even if it's only to a patient's/parent's reputation.  The vast majority of the work we have done for a parent's child will never be known to them.  We continue to work when you sleep, when you leave to take a shower, when you scream at us, when one of our other patients dies, when our own family gets ill, sometimes when the world feels like it's falling apart around us, we are still caring for your children and doing the best we can.  A friend has this on the wall of his office, when I was younger I wondered what bad or distasteful experience posessed him to place it there, as a reminder to never faulter in doing good, now I know, it was his experience in becoming a doctor.

God and You
They may see the good you do as self serving.

Continue to do good.

They may see your generosity as grandstanding.

Continue to be generous.

They may see your warm and caring nature as a weakness.

Continue to be warm and caring.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.

It never was between you and them anyway.
~ anon

Not feeling so Newbie these days - Doc