Question

Video # 3

How Doctors Tell Patients They’re Dying/Being Mortal

Mortality is part of life but is difficult to face, no matter what the situation is surrounding it. Whether the patient has been battling with a disease for a long time, or a short time. Provide a minimum of a two paragraph response.

In the first part of the response, you are the loved one. Describe what is going through you mind at the beginning of the video when the first physician comes in to speak to you and the patient. As the days go by and your loved one’s medical condition is deteriorating, describe what you are feeling in detail.

For the second part of the response, you are the Caregiver (Physician). Describe what you are feeling and thinking as you speak to the patient and his loved one. As the video advances, you are the one who has to help the family member face the reality of the situation. How do you feel and what is going through your mind?

Answer 1

Answer: The doctor and patient conversation provides the information regarding health status of the patient as well as the methids that doctor can use to treat the patient. It is most difficult part where seeing our loved ones suffering from particular disease for a long time. It feel that the patient should get recovered and it is important to provide relief to the patient.

Being a physician it is more difficult to handle the patient as well as his family members. This is because to make things clear to the patient's family takes lots of effort. Family needs counseling regarding the patient's health conditions. As a physician, one can understand the condition of the patient as well as that the patient is not going to get cured with any of the treatment. So, explaining things to family becomes more difficult. It requires indulgence of medical ethics.