Expressing emotions is really important especially when a student feels overloaded with studies and clinical shifts. While getting overwhelmed with a rush of emotions, one gesture we can do to make us feel better is expressing our emotions.
We should understand:-
Emotional Overload is Real …Clinical rotations can cause suffering, loss, and high-pressure situations that can be emotionally overwhelming.
Crying is Normal…Breaking down after rounds doesn’t mean you’re weak, it means you’re human and capable of empathy.
Suppressing Emotions Hurts More…Bottling up feelings to appear “strong” can lead to burnout, while expressing them can be healing.
Compassion is a Strength…Feeling deeply for your patients makes you a better, more understanding doctor in the long run.
While we know it is tough to express, however it is OKAY TO EXPRESS
Posting this especially for overwhelmed medicos, since I have been in this place!!
while having intercation with the attendents(patient family). the way of talk of doctors and nurses make a great impact. As nurse talk softly and guide them . it make great impact on attendent and on hosptial reputation also.
I think we should express our emotions in hospital rotations but only positive emotions.
Because your emotions will affect the thinking of patients and their attendants.
Like if you show anger then patient will never tell you all the problems.
If you nervous and feel fear then patient will say that no I don’t want you to check me. And many more examples you can think.
So yes express your emotions but never in hospital after your duty you do what you want.
In hospital be calm and polite,do hard work…yes it is difficult but keep yourself in their place.
In paediatric postings, we want to be calm, polite, patient and be as like a child to get cooperative with the baby.
In OBG, stand beside them and talk to them by understanding their pain and discomfort.
As like as in ortho, surgery also.
In general medicine, get detailed information about their symptoms.
Based on all the departments, the most important thing is patience and empathy towards the patient.
I’ve seen many doctors feel bad after they lose a patient or when they are the last messanger between the patient and family. We need to normalise this, doctors can’t be machines.
Thank you for sharing this @Soumya, it’s so true. Being a medical student is tough and it’s okay to feel overwhelmed and show emotions. Crying or opening up doesn’t make us weak it makes us human. Taking care of our feelings helps us take better care of others. Sending support to all medicos out there!
yes you are absolutely right crying is not a weakness its a kind of healing and forgetting the pain. Not everyone deserves our explaination so its ok to erase our pain by crying and infact we are making ourself strong and letting go of pain…
crying is a emotion not a weakness.
Beautifully put. It is highly crucial to express during tough workloads. Amid work, we always tend to forget that at the hindsight we all are human first. Work is just a part of life and for that, we should not let the life within us gradually passing by. This way we can create more empathy in the workplace too which is highly essential, because most of the times someone spends their time at the work more than what they do at home.
Emotional Overload is Real …Clinical rotations can cause suffering, loss, and high-pressure situations that can be emotionally overwhelming.
Crying is Normal…Breaking down after rounds doesn’t mean you’re weak, it means you’re human and capable of empathy.
Suppressing Emotions Hurts More…Bottling up feelings to appear “strong” can lead to burnout, while expressing them can be healing.
Compassion is a Strength…Feeling deeply for your patients makes you a better, more understanding doctor in the long run.
Posting this especially for overwhelmed medicos, since I have been in this place!!
