nasty patient's family

had pretty bad call last night... didn't get much sleep since 3am... which is kinda extraordinary in twh... hence, my precious 1-in-20-days off was all spent on sleeping... woke up 5pm... bad...

met a difficult patient's family yesterday... actually the patient has been hospitalised before i was there... the son tried every means to do something for his mother... who's deteriorating and dying... she's gasping yesterday... it took a long time for the case MO to tell him really no further intervention will be of benefit... then he came to me at night hoping some intravenous fluid will bring his mother back... i don't think he accepted what we said in the end but he had no choice...

he's really a pain... well there're many relatives like him who feel bad about seeing the patient die and not do a thing... it's very acceptable for someone to have this kind of feeling... but he's so stubborn... he heard but didn't listen... what's more he talked to you as if he's very understanding... almost killed me... he thought we didn't give her a chance and we're withdrawing all our treatments... i personally think he's not giving the patient a chance to retain some dignity in the last hours of her life...

scares me to learn that i have to handle all these people myself in weeks time... really need to brush up my communication skills...