During a recent placement, I experienced a difficult time in my life. Someone very close to me was going through a really hard time and was really suffering a lot, more than I have ever seen someone suffer. This person’s behaviour really wasn’t appropriate and was really starting to affect my professional life indirectly and directly, but I understand why they were acting this way. Anyways, this had a huge effect on me and for the first time, I began taking home stuff to work with me. Normally when working with patients I forget everything else going on and just focus on my patient. However stuff going on was really stressing me and I was finding it hard to give my patients my full focus and I ended up getting sick due to it. I would even go as far as to say that this was the hardest time of my life. I was planning to pull out of my clinic to focus on the stuff going on in my personal life. I discussed the situation with my supervisor and explained it was beginning to affect my patient care and I felt guilty for not giving my patients my all , he encouraged me to do what I needed to do.
I decided to hang in there for a few more days and see if I could refocus. Surprising I did and completed the placement to a satisfactory standard.
The reason I decided to discuss this was to encourage people (not sure if anyone else is like me) to not make rash decisions on serious matters, and really take time to consider it and try work through it without running away from stressful situations. At the time I never thought I would be able to complete the placement, but I surprised myself and managed. so I reckon we are all capable of surprising ourselves with perseverance. Don’t give up, but dont try to be superman
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It is often difficult as a medical professional that listens to other people's problems all day that we sometimes have problems of our own, in that our clinical positions are unique in that they do not allow a fluctuations in emotion and interference of personal life into the work place. Our patients are the number one priority at work and i think with time, it will be easier to switch on and off personal things as we walk through the door. I think there should be room for us to tell supervisors and seniors etc what is going on and action (if needed) to be taken accordingly.
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