Why You Should Thank Your Doctor for Your Job

Everyone wants to avoid seeing doctors. We are afraid of getting sick, do not want to be treated and are terribly worried when it comes to going to the doctor. You never know what kind of specialist you will find. You're just hoping it will. doctorWhich will help.

Who cares about the doctor’s feelings? After all, he is also a person who knows the usual feelings: hope, fear, disgust. Today's edition. "Site" It will introduce you to the notes of Dr. Vladimir Laishevtsev, an anesthesiologist-resuscitator who left this world almost 10 years ago. His daughter accidentally stumbled upon the diary, digging through the papers, and decided to share what she found.



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Anesthesiology and resuscitation are not accidentally mentioned together. These sciences are about one thing - the boundary state of man between life and death. And if anesthesiology turns off consciousness and all types of sensitivity of a person, the resuscitator returns the patient “from the dead”.

“The point in both cases is simple: the fight against death. Does anyone think death is an old woman with a scythe? Come on. She can be young, and beautiful, and cunning, and mean. It can encourage, relax, and then cheat. In those 20 years of intensive care, I was very tired.”

“Tired of the strain, the groans of the sick and the lamentations of relatives. Tired of his own conscience, which poisons existence every time a fatal accident occurs. With each new death, the old question throbbes in my head: did I do everything right, he was alive and died near me, why did I not help?



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“The inner voice drives you crazy. It is no wonder that every doctor has his own shift: someone loves fishing, someone draws, someone skis. If we save people, our passions save us.”

“One may hear that the anesthesiologist is not a doctor. When surgery is done, people always ask who operated. No one will ask who was anesthetizing. Few people know that anesthesiologist gives anesthesia to about 5 thousand patients per year. And every time you turn off someone’s consciousness, you turn off the ability to breathe, which means that you are responsible if something goes wrong.”



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You can often hear people talk about “little anesthesia.” But this phrase is only intended to calm the patient. After all, even after small anesthesia, great complications are possible. The patient may experience allergic shock or respiratory arrest. A tragic surprise can occur in any operation.

“The average life expectancy of a resuscitator is said to be less than 46 years. Not surprisingly, there is too much stress. In our department recently passed away two doctors: 46 and 48 years. Healthy, strong men. The reason was simply that the heart could not stand.”

"How do you handle it?" How to survive when a 20-year-old guy shot in a subclavian artery bleeds and asks to be saved, and then dies before your eyes. How to survive when a man with a heart attack is recovering, preparing for transfer to the profile department, talks to you and suddenly falls silent, eyes become blurred, a couple of seizures and death ...



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“In those moments, you feel angry at yourself because you didn’t help. You feel resentment at the patient, that he “failed”, did not justify the doctor’s hopes. You feel powerless and you realize how helpless you are in the face of death. You can cry, you can drink vodka, you can do anything. But nothing will help. You are a mere doctor, not God.

Doctors don't believe much. When you see life from the most unsightly side, it is difficult to believe in parallel worlds, heaven or hell. But doctors believe in fate. How else to explain cases when a person had to die according to all the laws of medicine, and he survives, and vice versa.

“I remember an incident where a horse hit a child with a hoof and pierced the skull right through. There was no chance, but he survived. The young man was brought three times (!) with a wound in the heart, and each time he climbed out. And someone will squeeze a pimple, get sepsis and die.”

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DepositPhotos: How many foreign objects must be removed from the body? One woman swallowed a holiday cake with a sharp plastic candlestick. A hole formed in the stomach, one after another complications arose. We did. Another was brought straight from the dining room - a piece of poorly chewed meat stuck in the throat. Clinical death, respiratory arrest, the measures taken did not help. It was not possible to save.”

“And such patients one by one. You can only rest after your shift. Rest the body, but the head will continue to digest. You just sit in your favorite chair, watching TV, but you don’t hear anything – there is a howl of relatives in your head, the crying of children, the hum of devices. It is impossible to sleep without a bottle.



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“If hell and heaven exist, we will burn. For all the mistakes and human deaths. There is such a gloomy doctor's joke: the more experienced the doctor, the bigger the cemetery behind him. Although in one death we try to rehabilitate dozens of lives saved.”

“Death is not as terrible as a prolonged illness when there is no chance of recovery. I've seen hundreds of these patients. It is not uncommon for a person to break his spine and only his brain works. They usually live no more than a month or two. Someone unsuccessfully dived into the pool, someone jumped into the river, and someone managed to fall from a tree. Such patients in the summer and autumn, the pond is a seasonal phenomenon, one might say.”



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In the West anesthesiologist-resuscitator He gets $45,000. How much do we get? I'm glad you saved another life, which means someone needed you.

By the way, in the CIS countries, the minimum wage of an anesthesiologist-resuscitator may not even reach $200. In large cities, it can be most 2-4 times. A doctor with a salary of $ 1,000 is rare in the CIS countries, even for capitals.

It's not easy being a real doctor, is it? Share this article on social media – let everyone know about the doctors who save our lives. Don’t these people deserve a little more respect?