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Getting depressed over reports - Newatthis

Posted: Jan 03, 2010

I find that lately I am feeling depressed over the reports I've been transcribing. Maybe it's because it's the holiday season and I can't help but feel badly for these people who are so very sick (I do acute care). Lots of oncology these days, for some reason. I wonder how MTs who transcribe for childrens' hospitals or cancer clinics handle it. It must get to them.

One of my docs does strictly breast care - FiveBlack

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Note after note after note is lump, biopsy, path report, treatment options, surgery, chemo, radiation, benign so repeat next year....

Sometimes it feels like a roulette wheel .. in which slot is this patient's ball going to land? Does she? Does she not? I can only imagine what it must be like for the patient sitting there waiting for the doc to say .. and I feel for these unknown to me people.

When someone gets a bad diagnosis, I think - dang that's what this day is for them, that's what they get to deal with. Whatever is wrong with my day that day, or week, or life, pales.

Empathy for your fellow human, even when they are just a name in your earpiece.

Agree - LoveToPaint

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Have to agree, empathy for your fellow human beings, and also being extremely grateful to being healthy and having healthy family members. I have transcribed for two adult hematology/oncology accounts, a children's hospital, and a children's hematology/oncology clinic daily for quite a while now, and I can relate the feelings. Some days can be tough, but then there are the good days of NED on scans, remissions, and discharging those previously sick babies home. Saying a quick prayer for these folks can't hurt, either.

CANCER - Nature

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I know just how they feel, as that is what I went through when my doctor me I had uterine cancer. My daughter had taken me to the doctor to get the results of my specimen. We both, and the doctor, thought it was just going through menopause. When my doctor asked my daughter to stay (who was 9 months pregnant), I knew it was bad news. I tried to prepare my daughter by giving her "that look," but she would never look at me. She turned very pale. She started crying. I was still stunned (to say the least). It is a day I will never forget

Can even top that shock - Mother

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My daughter in third year of college at school this particular day told over the phone by the infectious disease doctor that she had human immunovirus disease. She was all alone by the way. I only wish I had been there and we had been called into the office for such a diagnosis.

Oh dear- - so sorry

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medical management has advanced so much since the early days. Best wishes.

Advanced? This was in the 90s.... - Mother

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Good bedside manners never went out of style but apparently this doctor never learned them. I do not consider the 90s the early days.

Tough at times - LK

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Most of the time I don't let it get to me, but a few times I've broken down in tears, almost always when a child or young adult dies on the operating table or is obviously not going to survive the operation. Two recent ones I can remember is where a 15-year-old was beaten and suffered non-survivable brain injuries. They operated to relieve pressure on the brain, but he did die of his injuries. The other was a 17-year-old girl who was an unrestrained passenger in an MVA and was thrown through the windshield. She died on the operating table. Had she been wearing a seat belt, she probably would have survived, as did the other teenagers in the car. These things just tear your heart out.

I've had those, too - sad

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I did a trauma report on a 16 YO girl who was in a car accident not that long ago that was brain dead. She wasn't pronounced at that time, but she was eventually. The doc was talking about speaking with her mother and I was just in tears.

Sad reports. - had them

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I once had a report on an infant that had been severely abused. He had major head trauma as well as other injuries.

He was going to die.

I had this report 5 years ago and I still think about it from time to time. When I get a report like that, I say a prayer for the patient. Sometimes I cry for them.

It is hard, and even though we are separated from "our patients" through a computer, sometimes there is an emotional attachment.

I have done a report for a patient that was on his death bed, and then 2 days later do another on the same patient that is doing better. I always remember them, but it doesn't make it easier.

The good tends to outweigh the bad, though.

Depressed.. - Shas

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I was working in OB/GYN and I was prego myself so that may be what made it worse, but when they had someone come in for a confirmation of pregnancy I was so excited. But then they had people come in for first sonogram and there would be no heart beat or they would be bleeding and have had a miscarriage, that was hard for me. The worst was when they would come in for a termination of pregnancy. I hated that. It was sad to have a life in me and know that person does not get to have that.

Maybe it gets better, maybe not?

I refused.... - gabby

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to transcribe the "termination" reports. I told my boss I'd quit first and she gave them to someone else. A "baby" dies... Products of conception my asspirin... :(

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