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To make life and death decisions for people requires you have hubris and faith in yourself. I can't imagine what would happen to my hypercritical/overthinking s

To make life and death decisions for people requires you have hubris and faith in yourself. I can't imagine what would happen to my hypercritical/overthinking self if I was a doctor making life and death choices, some resulting in death, for people for 10 years. I had a hard enough time when I did medical software, working 80 hour weeks to get a new release out the door because it was going to positively impact people's lives and a delay meant X people's lives wouldn't be improved, and I took that on as me failing those people who I didn't help every day the release didn't go out.

dec0dedab0de 4y ago
To make life and death decisions for people requires you have hubris and faith in yourself. Sure, but outside of surgeons and the ER, most doctors are not making life or death decisions all too often. Your average family medicine doctor should always be presenting multiple options for care, and be honest with the patient and themselves that they may be wrong about the diagnosis. I know some people dislike so-called weasel words, but doctors should be using them regularly.