Luckily, dh's specialty is healthy moms and babies (usually, not always!), and we see them around town. He also gets "love letters" occasionally--you'd be surprised how many he gets from women who were so happy with their epidurals.
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Originally posted by CassyCulture really varies by specialty and also varies depending on unit or practice.
DH gets attached to some patients. He frequently treats entire families and gets to know them very well. Add into the equation that we live in a CRAZY rural area so these are our neighbors and sometimes our friends.
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Generally, no.Culture really varies by specialty and also varies depending on unit or practice.
Contrast this with burn surgery, the subspecialty that DH would have chosen if peds didn't work out. This subspecialty tends to create much more protracted relationships with patients and families. In fact, one of the things that he loved about burn was the longer patient relationships.
With all of this being said, I will tell you that some of his patients' stories haunt him for a long time. He still talks about the toddler who shot in the liver by the his twin when they discovered their police father's hand gun under the bed, the family who accidentally ran over their three year old with an SUV, and other equally horrific things that has happened to some of his patients.In my dreams I run with the Kenyans.
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