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poker-faced doctors？
is medicine like playing poker?
well, yes & no.
it's NOT like poker because you don't gamble with your patients' lives.
and yet, everyday you face problems that require both your own rational judgment & dependence on a bit of luck divine interevention. like sometimes, you have to decide if the problem is too big to handle & that the patient is better managed at another institution. in poker-speak, would you raise the stakes & take a chance that you have a better hand, or fold up & cut your losses?
proceed to treatment or refer to another hospital?
in my honest opinion, i think doctors make bad poker players.
10 comments:
SO - just stay put at practising medicine - okie ? Forget about poker games :) !
UG，
ha ha, all very true!
poker faced doctors... hmmm seen some @ one "beach" hosp :[ I was in a "strip poker" & sometimes wished it was russian roulette.. well that's all in the past :p
MissyC,
looks like the past has come back to haunt you.
all is well now, right?
well, most doctors r great!
Wenn，
you are much too kind!
In America, poker face is a matter of getting sued or not.
Yvonne，
doctors should just fold up when they hold lousy cards.
and save taxpayers' money of public prosecutions.
Yvonne，
unfortunately, there's this ego thing to contend with.
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