Clinical Practice Quotes

“anxiety, with its concomitant feelings of helplessness, isolation, and conflict, is an exceedingly painful experience. One tends to be angry and resentful toward those responsible for placing him in such a situation of pain. Clinical experience yields many examples like the following: A dependent person, finding himself in a situation of responsibility with which he feels he cannot cope, reacts with hostility both toward those who have placed him in the situation and toward those (usually parents) who caused him to be unable to cope with it. Or he feels hostility toward his therapist, whom he believes should bail him out”
― Rollo May, The Meaning of Anxiety

“The registrar, who was very experienced and wise, immediately ordered an industrial dose of diamorphine. This was possibly my first experience of a competent and humane doctor going outside guidelines to better serve the patient’s needs.
His thoughts on when, and when not to, discontinue resuscitation bought perspective to the existing didactic protocols.”
― Liam Hughes, Bodily Fluids: Five Decades of Blood, Phlegm and Bile on the Hospital Frontline