Most of them feel like no one has been listening to them. I'm not doing much different from the previous docs, and truly feel like I'm rushing them out of my exam rooms. I worry like crazy that I'm going to eventually become a doc who they think is not listening. It may be that their docs were listening but because I'm a fresh face, now they feel heard.
They also are angry that diagnoses are missed. For me, it's been easy. I see all the symptoms in chronological order. I see what's been ordered and what's left. I see what's been ruled out. It makes me look like a genius when it just means I've done my homework.
Then there's the racist, genderist, homophobic etc. comments that I get as well. I try to stop my patients from talking before they say something I'LL regret because it means that I'll hear it again whenever I see their face.
No great lesson from all this. Just legitimate worry for my future and trying to figure out why it's like this.
