"People often ask physicians how we handle the emotional stress of dealing with ill children. what are our defence mechanisms? Do we practice a cool detachment? Do we shut off our emotions completely? Or do we go home at the end of the day and sob over a reheated dinner?... The truth is we are trained to do a job: recognize a problem, come up with a solution, and execute that plan. Our ability to actually do something protects us from what you might expect would be a chronic depressive state. We feed off the satisfaction of being able to help and we know that things would be worse if we didn't or couldn't, do anything. For that reason, the experience of taking care of kids is much different from a hopeless walk through a pediatric ward as a visitor."
-----------------------------------Recommended sermons and podcasts:
- Biblical Reflections Before Brain Surgery, by Brian Borgman [Text: Psalm 61:1-4]
- Biblical Reflections After Brain Surgery, by Brian Borgman [Text: Psalm 50:15]
