Egyptian female doctors?

Question

How much does their job affect them? Do they keep the ability to Sympathize, care and have a soft heart, or the amount of suffering and deaths they see every day make them lose this ability.

Sometimes I feel surprised at the hospital when I see a doctor laughing after a failed surgery or when I see nurses chatting on the phone ignoring the screams of a suffering patient.

I hope that doctors don't get offended by my question, I just want to know how much this job affects their feelings, I respect their job and I know how difficult it is.

N.B

I don't mean any gender discrimination but I'm more concerned about female doctors.

Answer 1

Yes , my job affected me , it made me more tough , more secular than I used to be , less judgemental ,  or not at all.

I am a neuropsychiatrist to be , and I saw lots of corruption in our hospitals , but I stand to fight , I made 2 complains at the chairman of the hospital against two doctors before , and I am ready to make them against nurses who abuse the patients , I am not afraid of anyone or anybody.

I saw a neurologic patient before screaming in her bed from pain , and I ran to the senior  doctor to tell him , he just pretended he didn't hear me , so I told him in a harsh way , "you won't know the meaning of pain until you lay in a bed like her" , and gave him my back and walked away.

When I sit with my patient waiting for her to give birth " I am in gyn round now" , I chit chat with her , to make her forget her pain , and when I hear her prayers for me , I just feel great.

May be psychiatry is a different branch , we should have empathy "not sympathy" with our  patients , we shouldn't be judgemental , and  we should lay our religion and emotions beside .

What made prof . Ahmad Okasha the most succesful psychiatrist in Egypt and the whole world is being secular and not judgemental , as we deal daily with addicts , homosexuals , and we listen to myseries , we listen to a wife who cheated on her husband and vice versa , I don't lash her or bash her , I don't know what made her like that , or which circumstances put her in that situation .

In this moment I forget that I am Muslim , I forget  the brutality of the  Sharia laws , and the only thing I remember that I am just a human being just like my  patient.

Bottom line , this job raised my ethics and morals , but decreased my attachment to my religion more than I was already I am  , and I am satisfied and glad with it, this is the career  that suits me.

Answer 2

i love isadora s answer

my aunt is a successuful eye doctor and she is happy  in her job

Answer 3

not all female doctors would or wouldnt empathise with the patient .

it depends on her personality , as in everything else .

if she is mature and has morals , she wont change in a bad way.

look at each doctor and evaluate her individually .