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Coping with life after the shock
I'm sure that health professionals, being articulate, curious and well informed are less ready than most to accept a diagnosis passively; and more likely than most to need peer group support because they KNOW the doctor isn't God whereas most people just suspect he might not be............
It has taken several years to adjust to retirement, and I still have days when I long for the safety of somewhere to go where I have no decisions to make apart from those relating to other people.
So what DO I want to do with my life? Throw it down at the service of my fellow man? I see through the altruism these days and perceive the murky outlines of uncertainty and lostness and understand well why I was such a "caring" doctor.
I'm fairly happy most of the time. Digging a pond; fencing in a new vegetable plot; building a big shed for the big mower; fitting out a new workshop.
Ah, how are the mighty fallen.
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