catarsis

today i've slept really really long hours..its been a long time since i've slept this long.today is saturday and im really glad declaring that its holiday!no class on saturday..nevertheless i have ALS skills station training dis eve afta asar.

yesterday's tutorial really did open my mind a bit.Dr Ismail was referring to the role of a doctor as catarsis.catarsis means window.u open a window to the patient's heart.catarsis is being a good listener,let the patient pour his heart out n showing empathy.n he asked us to differentiate between showing sympathy n empathy.

A doctor should show empathy but not sympathy.Sympathy is you share what the patient is feeling,n u agree with whatever the patient feels,strong emotional involvement really occurs here.but empathy is u show concern n understand the patient's feeling but not until u get emotionally involved n attached as well.n instead of agreeing with whatever the patient feels,u give alternatives to his solution.In other words,u draw a borderline,the borderline is professionalism.

Take an example.If a patient is crying n complaining about her husband and blaming him,sympathy will make u as a doctor cry as well,agree with her complains n join in in blaming her husband.But if ur empathic,u will listen well,giving proper non verbal response to the patient woes n instead of agreeing with her complains,u give alternatives,from many sides of viewpoint so a rational solution cud be derived.

And as a female (and a strongly expressive ones!), i feel that its really hard to show empathy not sympathy.As u know,females tend to be emotional n love to get emotionally involved.I think all these while,if a friend or person comes to me to 'curhat',i'd shown sympathy instead of empathy kerana tak 'sampai hati' cos u noe dat most people will be in denial when they're tangled up in a problem.

i realy need to work on my empathy not sympathy,so my mind will be healthy.hehe.who says being a doctor is easy?huhhhuuu.sigh*

p/s: one week more-exam n OSCE n pharmaco report plus proposal for MSK (Majlis Suai Kenal) plus ECG study n assisstency.pheww,hope i'll manage to get thru.owh,dun forget to go to mbak warni's!

oh,and thx to juniors 07 for such wonderful nasyeed yesterday!that was an effort n soo cute~!(siap ade conductor sume..hehhe).luv u guys a heap!=D