What do you do when your loved one becomes suddenly ill?

When someone you love who has always been healthy and a go-getter suddenly takes ill, it can be very scary and confusing for both of you. It can be particularly scary and confusing for your loved one. Your loved one, while healing, is also experiencing grief/loss, and not just over the loss of health. Even as adults, we can sometimes feel like bad things won’t ever happen to us. Feeling one’s mortality up close, and suddenly, is life changing. When someone we love is hurting, our first impulse is to help them to the best of our ability. However, our altruistic desire to help can actually be a source of harm for our loved one. Here are ten tips on how you can help a loved one through a period of illness: Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs