the unfeeling healing profession

Yes, I know what you mean and I've seen it happen to friends and family members. Those in the healing profession do not actually give a hoot whether you die or not since you are not a member of his family. I feel the need for compassion from those in the supposedly healing profession. I remember once when they extracted some blood from my father's very frail body for testing. I did not have to be a doctor to see that he probably got a few drops of blood in his body and to be extracting blood from the already weak body did not look good, but we had to follow their procedure as they blood test was ordered by the doctor. However, what really blew my top was when they had to do it again since they forgot about the test and let the blood just lie around so that it sort of expired, so they had to get blood from him again. This really made me blow my top. It was obvious that had it been a member of their family they would have done their work without fail. It is so frustrating really. I have seen how they just apply drastic procedures on a patient who obviously was too weak to handle those procedures. Naturally, the patients die and they don't even give a hoot if that happens.

I never had that problem except with my family doctor who had the personality of a wooden stick. Now I think that with medical people, I suspect that much of their coolness is due to them not wanting to feel overwhelmed or overly sorrowful especially when the patient is dying. For instance, I did not feel bad when the nurses and doctors looking after my husband in his last few months did not break down and cry. I mean I wanted them to care for him not to say "oh he is suffering so much, I can't take it anymore!" and go screaming out of the room. So there has to be a middle ground.

I honestly feel like this too sometimes. Many medical practitioners that I have consulted before are so busy that I'm in the appointment room and I'm out the next couple of minutes wondering if I have been thoroughly assessed for my medical condition. I feel a lot of these medical practitioners are aiming to see more and more patients to rake in as much money as they can. Despite this, I believe there are still medical practitioners that still genuinely care about their patients, although the numbers are pretty scarce these days. I myself work in the healthcare field (as a pharmacist), and I care for all my customers/patients and treat each of them like a family member who needs health assistance, and I will spend time talking to them and recommending appropriate products no matter how busy I am with other work commitments.

People here in the UK don't like to even think of having to go into hospital because of this. Suddenly you become less than human and are considered as just an illness or disease. Very few staff even bother to find out what you're called. I know there are exceptions and some hospitals pride themselves on their excellent patient care but they are not all like that. They should be!

It would be wonderful if we had enough doctors in the world to allow every patient to be treated as a human being instead of a numbered case. However, the fact is that doctors and nurses have to take care of dozens of people each day and simply do not have time to sit down and have a conversation with each and every one. As a child, I was lucky to have a wonderful doctor who always paid close attention to every patient. He diagnosed my asthma when the doctors in my local hospital's emergency room said that I had bronchitis and sent me home with medication that made me ill. However, now that I am no longer a patient of that doctor, I am forced to go to the emergency room for every ill and have never been pleased by my experiences there. I am always given the wrong medication (or too much of the right one) and something always goes wrong (my IV exploding, for one). Hospitals are very impersonal places, but I have to admit that they have a reason to be. The healtcare system is overloaded and I can't blame doctors for being stressed and hurried.