Why do DRS got too take the long way around telling you that there is something !
Question: If it was them that was really sick they would want too find out as soon as they can, but when its someone eles, they dont seem too care!!!!
Answers: If it was them that was really sick they would want too find out as soon as they can, but when its someone eles, they dont seem too care!!!!
Have you asked for results of tests taken? If you show interest even the Technicians will tell you what it looks like, just ask. We have Just read the Xray taken, it shows a fractured rib. The Technician and I agreed. Now the Doctor will later after seeing her patients get and read these XRays and will call me with the results. There are other Hospitals that will take 1-2 weeks to have the test read, and that is a pain........... in tha Neck,.
They do care and they do not like being the bearers of bad news either. No one does. Sometimes, they have not received reports from all the tests they have ordered and so they still do not have the complete picture in order to talk with someone about an illness. It is a logistic thing (getting all reports and reviewing them first) rather than a "don't care" thing. They would not have gone into medicine if they didn't care.
Well, once a person hears they are really sick, like with cancer or something, that's pretty much all they can hear after that. It's like that one piece of information drowns everything else out.
And since denial is the first response to something like that, a person might not even believe the doctor and will get angry even.
So a lot of times a doctor will start by saying what tests they did and what the results indicate. Then they will talk about how they are going to fix the problem. THEN they tell you the problem.
It's really the best way for them to go about it.
There's no easy way to give bad news. Do you blurt it out and risk destroying a person's will to live? Or do you deliver the news as gently as possible and hope the person will continue to fight for life? And if it's a fatal diagnosis it's even harder. My grandmother was told she had interstitial lung disease, with no explanation that it's a death sentence. (She's a retired nurse, though, she knows but she's already lived longer than they thought she would.) My stepfather was diagnosed with metastacized liver cancer and told to go home and put his affairs in order. Which approach was better? It's easy to criticise, but try putting yourself in the medical professional's shoes. I'd hate to have to give bad news time after time after time.