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A patient who was gravely ill was saved by me, the doctor, and the patient want to give me a gift, in form of an overseas holiday as a sign of gratitude. How should I react to this? The patient says that he absolutely must do something for me to repay me, so it would seem difficult to reject the offer.
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If you are a doctor, you help people because you want to. If you accept this gift, you might start to subconsciously expect other patients to offer you gifts as well for your services. It a personal choice you, but with gifts people always feel indebted and it can change the relationship between patient and doctor or co-workers, etc. One suggestion might be to find a charity you can have the gift donated to - this way the patient can feel happy and that they repaid you and you can feel good about helping those in need without creating a sense of always expecting gifts for your services. In the long run I think you will like you job more for the good work that you do and not distract yourself with thoughts of gifts from patients.

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It is a tough question..
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so professional achievement is different from personal achievementou
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I would perform it only if it's the only solution to a possible health threat to both the baby and the mother.
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Your desire to save people, and to continue finding ways to keep them healthy.
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At first, I wanted to make sure I would be able to keep my family in good health, specially my parents. I later realized that I would want to do the same to other people as well.
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dk123
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:27 AM
nice comment
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thingMaster
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 1:52 PM
you are overconfident. you will probably kill many patients, but drive a nice car.
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to be a doctor and serve people and society..
I would like to do some volunteer work too..

i guess the question should be why do you want to be a doctor..
I guess doctors are always medical.. the question is not framed right..
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