Joanne Jarrett is a family physician and can be reached at Creating Cozy Clothes. She is also the host, Fancy Free Podcast.
I love my husband. Not in a common way. This love is an earth-shattering, jigsaw puzzle fit, Hallelujah chorus kind of love. I look at him and just reel with the awe of our having found each other. We complement each other. We are best friends and confidantes. We have a mutual respect that sees us through conflict and a collective sense of humor that keeps us laughing. And yet, …
After reading “13 things every doctor wants their patients to know,” here are 13 more things good doctors wish their patients knew.
1. We need the complete truth. I feel for patients who hesitate to reveal something embarrassing. But we hear so much. Very little shocks us. Also, we realize we haven’t walked a mile in your shoes. Or an inch. We take in the facts and get down to …
1. We worry. We lie awake worried sick about you more often than you’d think. The stakes are so high, and we know it.
2. We wonder. I ran into a friend who’d met a patient I’d had sixteen years earlier. She gave me some follow-up, and it made my day — maybe my month. It was a year ago, and I’m still thinking about it. She’d had blood cancer. I referred her …
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