Doctor/Patient Relationships

In last weeks lecture we talked about patient and doctor interactions, I watching the show named “ Jane The Virgin”  and came across an episode that demonstrates the relationship between a doctor and a patient and the effects it can have. In the first episode Jane goes to a check up with a doctor and before she goes in it shows a clip were the doctor is having a rough time due to a break up and the doctor becomes is very distracted and focused on her personal problem. The nurse tells her she’s late and that she is covering for another doctor to do an insemination. While the nurse following her and telling her what she needs to do, the doctor is walking a bit faster than the nurse and is looking at her phone. She walks into the room as the patient is sleeping and she tells her if she is ready for her insemination as she closes the door and the patient wakes up to the sound of the door and answers yes. She is crying as she is doing the procedure since she is still emotional, when she is finished she goes into the other room with the next patient and realizes she inseminated the wrong person. I will leave it at that because I do not want to spoil this great show. This episode made me realize that doctors need to be professional when they are seeing their patients and they need to be careful and be aware of what they are doing. Doctors should not let personal problems follow them into work because they can get distracted which can result in huge mistakes like this one.