Chronic Illness on Sidechat | Idk if this is the right place to post this but…I work in healthcare and I keep clashing with a co worker cuz I let my personal experience dictate my choices. They have more education and actual experience. But as a long time patient, I have strong belief

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Chronic Illness 7w

Idk if this is the right place to post this but…I work in healthcare and I keep clashing with a co worker cuz I let my personal experience dictate my choices. They have more education and actual experience. But as a long time patient, I have strong belief

Anonymous 7w

as a chronically ill person who also wants to work in healthcare, do you have an example of something you clashed on? i'm curious what specific things would cause disagreement

Anonymous 7w

*beliefs and I can’t just go along with everything they say. It’s just frustrating because I know I can’t let personal feelings dictate my patient care but at the same time when I see people approach it in a way I as a patient (and others I know) would not appreciate I can’t sit by. Too often I recall being told things are for my own good. Being on the other side, I still don’t agree with that.

Anonymous

#1 7w

Some big topics for me are how pain is approached. It is very clinical, obsessed with numbers, and while important I find it just worsens things for people with chronic pain. There is this strong push if a patient is not making progress that (at least working inpatient) they will be discharged and needing to rush patients on their acceptance of disability. Or grouping people to accommodate for less staff and thereby not delivering as patient centered care.

Anonymous

#1 7w

I have medical trauma and some triggers so it does make it challenging. A very specific example is pushing someone to accept disability at a different speed than they are at. I believe in a slower approach and more individual at their speed, whereas the co worker thinks the patient just needs to get thrown into situations and learn to cope because that’s life. And personal experience isn’t really a reason to push back for. So that’s a hard challenge.