Dr. Crippen describes how it sometimes feels to be a doctor. In any system, not only in NHS: What shall we do with grandad?
Dr Crippen is a fairly high-emotive doctor. This is good for most of his patients and bad for a few. It is not good for him. Two of my partners are low-emotive doctors. Don’t get me wrong. They are excellent doctors. I would happily see them if I were ill. But they are more dispassionate than I. They do not get involved as much.
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