article_snippet: I'm torn between bursting into tears and storming into the corridor to tell those junior doctors that if those junior doctors learn one thing today, it's how not to talk to the sick and those junior doctors loved ones.
article_snippet: Life and death are routine for medical staff, but for the rest of we Life and death are, well, life and death.
article_snippet: Doctors will argue Doctors are appallingly busy, would love to give people more attention, but don't have the time.
article_snippet: Or that to do Doctors job properly Doctors need the emotional distance.
article_snippet: Same patient, different consultant, working under exactly the same pressure and constraints as the others.
article_snippet: For the second time that awful year a doctor's words reduced me to tears.
article_snippet: Both doctors were working in the same private healthcare system.
article_snippet: But what she did not have was the nous (or compassion) to grasp that a patient's loved ones are rarely at a patient's loved ones most rational.
article_snippet: Sarah wonders some doctors so understanding and others
article_snippet: Why are some doctors so understanding and others
article_snippet: But they were hard times and I have all too vivid memories of how some doctors were a blessing from on high, but others were the complete opposite, erecting a cordon sanitaire between others and others patient.
article_snippet: Over the years we have had to meet many more doctors.
article_snippet: I still regret that, on that miserable day, I didn't rush out after the junior doctors and demand to know: what sort of doctor do you want to be remembered as?