උස්සපු එකක් ආතල් ගතියක් තියෙන හින්ද දානව 
Q. Doctors of Quora, what's something you've had to tell a patient that you thought for sure was common knowledge?
Oh boy. Not so much patients as their families. Here we go:
The family that asked if I took the brain out of the head to work on it, then put it back at the end of the surgery
The father, who after I explained with as much empathy as I could what to expect from his son’s head injury, thought for a moment and asked, “The brain…that's in the head, right?”
The family who, when I explained that their mother had suffered a contusion to the frontal lobe, were perplexed, as they thought the brain was only in the back of the head
The family of an unfortunate young man brain dead from a brainstem stroke, who accused me of bigotry because obviously, if their loved one had been of my own ethnicity, I'd have offered a brain transplant
On that last one I was very tempted to apologize, and ask for a living related donor, but one maintains one’s own BNBR policy in such situations.
I try very hard to speak to families in a respectful and empathetic way that avoids medical jargon. Too many of my colleagues use medicalese to shield their own emotions in tragic situations. But sometimes communication is unexpectedly difficult.
This is why I've learned never to use euphemisms. Never tell a family their loved one “didn't make it,” or “passed.” You have to say “died.”
Q. Doctors of Quora, what's something you've had to tell a patient that you thought for sure was common knowledge?
Oh boy. Not so much patients as their families. Here we go:
The family that asked if I took the brain out of the head to work on it, then put it back at the end of the surgery
The father, who after I explained with as much empathy as I could what to expect from his son’s head injury, thought for a moment and asked, “The brain…that's in the head, right?”
The family who, when I explained that their mother had suffered a contusion to the frontal lobe, were perplexed, as they thought the brain was only in the back of the head
The family of an unfortunate young man brain dead from a brainstem stroke, who accused me of bigotry because obviously, if their loved one had been of my own ethnicity, I'd have offered a brain transplant
On that last one I was very tempted to apologize, and ask for a living related donor, but one maintains one’s own BNBR policy in such situations.
I try very hard to speak to families in a respectful and empathetic way that avoids medical jargon. Too many of my colleagues use medicalese to shield their own emotions in tragic situations. But sometimes communication is unexpectedly difficult.
This is why I've learned never to use euphemisms. Never tell a family their loved one “didn't make it,” or “passed.” You have to say “died.”
