Doctor Mike

If you were having someone shadow you as a med student or pre-med and they're interested in your field and you sense they tell you they have a low EQ, do you discourage them?

It's almost like you're doing a session with your students.

And 32 hours a week can be compassionate fatiguing.

Do you ever experience compassion fatigue?

Is it reasonable to expect to have compassion fatigue?

If you're seeing multiple patients in a day and they're all telling you about loss and grieving,

That's gotta be heavy, no?

I know I get a benefit of it, my patients do, watching mindless TV shows that you know are garbage.

But for some reason, because they're garbage, makes them watchable?

Yeah, like I used to, when I was younger and maybe my late teens, early 20s, loved watching hard hitting dramas, serious bits of movie.

And then like now I come home after a long day

And there's like, oh, best drama award.

I'm like, God, I just, I can't watch a sad drama.

Like, where are the silly, stupid comedy?

Yeah, I felt that in watching The Pit, the first episode.

I was like, oh, this is too real right now.

Yeah, big time.

Did you read House of God?

Yes.

Yeah, Samuel Shem.