Comments on: last memory before you die http://doctorben.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/last-memory-before-you-die/ Dr Ben on the strange world that is an emergency department Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:05:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Dr Ben http://doctorben.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/last-memory-before-you-die/#comment-217 Dr Ben Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:12:19 +0000 http://doctorben.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/last-memory-before-you-die/#comment-217 Hi Clare, Welcome to the site. Always thrilled to have someone comment - more importantly read my ramblings! Thanks for your kind words. It was a tough night and he wasn't your average patient. Sadly it didn't go the way we would have liked at all... Unfortunately, part of the job is that you do tend to take some of these situations home with you and it is impossible not to have some measure of emotion when dealing with them. Hope you continue to read and comment. Ben Hi Clare,

Welcome to the site. Always thrilled to have someone comment – more importantly read my ramblings! Thanks for your kind words. It was a tough night and he wasn’t your average patient. Sadly it didn’t go the way we would have liked at all…

Unfortunately, part of the job is that you do tend to take some of these situations home with you and it is impossible not to have some measure of emotion when dealing with them.

Hope you continue to read and comment.

Ben

]]> By: Clare http://doctorben.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/last-memory-before-you-die/#comment-213 Clare Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:54:54 +0000 http://doctorben.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/last-memory-before-you-die/#comment-213 Hey, sounds like you had a tough night and he sounded like a tough patient. I really like your writing style. Especially those about the hospital. It sounds like you're talking in the dark to someone you're close too. Quiet, genuine hidden emotion combined with good facts. I've been reading since your first blog, but never commented. Then my laptop got stolen, and I couldn't read any of my blogs. Missed your writing. Hey, sounds like you had a tough night and he sounded like a tough patient.

I really like your writing style. Especially those about the hospital. It sounds like you’re talking in the dark to someone you’re close too. Quiet, genuine hidden emotion combined with good facts. I’ve been reading since your first blog, but never commented. Then my laptop got stolen, and I couldn’t read any of my blogs. Missed your writing.

]]> By: Damian http://doctorben.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/last-memory-before-you-die/#comment-203 Damian Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:15:05 +0000 http://doctorben.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/last-memory-before-you-die/#comment-203 Don't beat yourself up. The information you had at the time told you that he wasn't as sick as the other people you had to see - so you acted on it. As for your attitude: you were under stress too, and you can only dispense so much tea and sympathy in a hospital emergency room Don’t beat yourself up. The information you had at the time told you that he wasn’t as sick as the other people you had to see – so you acted on it. As for your attitude: you were under stress too, and you can only dispense so much tea and sympathy in a hospital emergency room

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