Doctors are people too…

Contrary to the common public perception….

We have a life outside our work.. at least we should.

We maintain a professional demeanor in front of patients. But deep down, we hurt when you hurt. We feel your pain.

Life happens to us too. Personal circumstances can sometimes get in the way of professional obligations or promises we make to others.

We need to stay healthy in order to continue to serve in our practice. Some of us walk our talk and therefore need time to ourselves to become the change we want to see in our patients.

When we’re not seeing patients, it doesn’t necessarily mean we’re not working. In today’s world of medicine, chiropractic or any regulated health profession, the demand of paperwork including documentation has surpassed most of our expectations when we took that oath upon graduation.

Some of us put in extra time to  research some  cases so we can provide the best guidance, care plan or referral.

Doctors don’t usually sit by a computer all day monitoring emails. If we don’t respond to your request right away, well.. this is why. We’re tending to patients. So we try to respond that evening or the next day we have that administrative time scheduled.

Just like everyone else, we have good days and not so good days. We forget things at the worst times but we do what we can to rectify our shortcomings.

Yet, the joys of seeing our patients through their journey to health outweigh any frustrating challenges we encounter in practice.

It comes down to this.. We mean well. Our intention is to help. If a patient doesn’t follow through with our recommendations, that’s his or her decision. We don’t take it personally. However, we do need to fulfill our obligation to patients by evaluating and making those recommendations. That’s all we can do. Doctor means teacher.

It’s just that simple. We’re people too.