how do they handle death?

@mayrose (323)
Philippines
September 19, 2008 10:55pm CST
being in a hospital scares me, not because im afraid of dead people is just that i feel that when your there everyone has a problem. Even if i know that not all the people there are sick, and im wondering how do nurses or doctors handled themselves when there patience died? are they used to it? or they cry too?
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4 responses
• Philippines
23 Sep 08
we don't cry if our patient die as a nurse or as a doctor you need to be professional when you are in the area, it's really difficult to see that your patient is dying but you don't need to grieve all you need to do is to support the relatives and explain all the reason what really happen to their patient.but when it is your first time to encounter that kind of situation it will really put you on a shock you cant notice that you're doing nothing in the area this is my experience i was so shock and dont know what to do
@mayrose (323)
• Philippines
23 Sep 08
thank you.. i don't want to be on that situation
@davipiero (175)
• Indonesia
24 Sep 08
They are used to it. They don't cry to face it. All they need to do is showing their empathy. At least that's all I learn at med school. They don't need our tears, They need their friends, families, etc to be alive, to be cured. When we fail to fulfill that. They need our empathy.
• Philippines
20 Sep 08
I think doctors and nurses are used to it, the fact that, that is their profession, i have a nurse friend, he say, they have to buy a corpse and study it, but me, i don't like going to the hospital, i don't like the smell, the smell of the different medicines, it makes me vomit.
@katkat (2378)
• Philippines
22 Sep 08
They are all professionals and I think they are taught to be not so emotional with their patients. They can be sympathetic but not too emotional for them to cry.