Thursday, January 21, 2010

More on Dr. Berk

Dr. Berk is coming back as full time CEO of the Medical center. What do you guess that a job like that takes? 50? 60 hours a week? This man is amazing!
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/taubman/?id=2742

AND to continue with depressing stories, my patient yesterday had MS, diagnosed in his early 40's. Severely disabled practically since diagnosis, and acc to Dr. N, without much hope for him to get better (he practically can't walk and even if he could he has absolutely no energy). From lack of activity he is gaining weight. And weight gain and chronic lack of activity make an excellent recipe for shit to happen. So that was another very upsetting day at the Rehab unit. I wonder if I will get callous at some point. I don't know if I want to, though. Will I loose my humanity?


~e

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for providing the link. I read Dr. Berk's Comments---most inspiring!

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