9. Doctors Lie
The most difficult part of being a doctor is trying to give hope to patients and their relatives, especially when things aren’t looking too well. The pain of seeing others witness love-ones waste away and die could be difficult to bear, and doctors are subjected to that spectacle more than they would like to be.
To make it easier for the relatives to cope, doctors often make up white lies to give them some form of hope to hold on to and lessen the grief that illnesses bring. These lies also serve to encourage patients to keep on fighting by following through with their treatment plan.
The hardest thing most of all is telling a patient that everything is going to be alright even if they know that their circumstances are bleak.
