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Summary: A physician experiences many stressful and difficult days throughout their career. Hear about one physician's hardest day in the health care field, the first time he told a parent their child had died, in this free medical career information video.
Catherine Stallworth, M.D., is a board-certified physician with more than 15 years of experience in the health care field. Dr. Stallworth is the medical director at Nashville...read more
"My hardest day as a physician, was my first year as a physician. I was an intern at Ben Taub, and took care of a little girl, who had been hit by a car, and she died, and the hardest thing that I've ever done, was going to tell that little girl's mother, that she had died, after we had worked for over an hour, to try to save her. I think because I really felt a connection with the mom, and just realizing how sad she was, and it was really, really tough, and as a physician, what happens is, you learn to wall that part of yourself off. You almost harden yourself to it, so that you can deal with it, and go on, and take care of the next patient, but it's a really, really, challenging aspect of the practice of medicine. Some general difficulties, certainly the constant pressure to not make a mistake. Feeling overwhelmed at times, because of the vast amount of information, the amount of medications that are available, the number of drug interactions that can occur. That can be overwhelming, and then certainly in this day and age, when we all know that our health system is in a bit of a crisis. The sense of having loss control, and not being able to do for your patients ,what you would ideally like to provide for them, is very, very frustrating."
eHow Article: Physician's Hardest Day
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