Comments on: Wives of emergency physicians http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/wives-of-emergency-room-physicians.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/wives-of-emergency-room-physicians.html#comment-85064 Anonymous Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:51:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/wives-of-emergency-physicians.html#comment-85064 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. <br/><br/>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. 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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