Edwin Leap interviews several to get their take:
The community really doesn’t understand what our husbands do! And there’s so much criticism of’front-line’ medicine. The public has no idea of the problems, like insurance companies and free care. It’s easy to feel isolated from everyone except for other emergency medicine families.
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That is true of anyone. No one understands what you or I do except those who do it, or perhaps depend on those who do it. It is basic human selfishness. No one appreciates your problems, just when they don’t get what they want out of you. That is not unique to medicine in general or ER medicine in particular. We all saw Dr. Leap run on doctors who don’t accept his patients. He sees his side of it.
The small town thing is something unique to those who live in them, and cultivates a certain amount of guardedness in the wives of those physicians, and is more acute for some specialties than others. I imagine that many of the docs in Seneca spend a lot of their few free weekends taking their spouses to Asheville or Atlanta.
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