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Pooja Patel Department of Medicine, Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School, University Hospital-I-248 , 150 Bergen Street, Newark, New Jersey 07101 , United States Corresponding author. Department of Medicine, Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School University Hospital I-248, 150 Bergen Street Newark, New Jersey 07101, United States. E-mail: poojaapatel15@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7302-544X Postgraduate Medical Journal, Volume 100, Issue 1183, May 2024, Pages 358–359, https://doi.org/10.1093/postmj/qgad078
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19 September 2023
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09 August 2023
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11 August 2023
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24 August 2023
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19 September 2023
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Pooja Patel, Reflections on Patient Resilience, Postgraduate Medical Journal, Volume 100, Issue 1183, May 2024, Pages 358–359, https://doi.org/10.1093/postmj/qgad078
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Every morning, I walk through the halls of the hospital, engaged and grateful for the opportunity to take care of my patients. Oftentimes, I meet patients at one of the lowest points of their lives. It is during these challenging times that I believe patients are most vulnerable. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to assist them to recover holistically incorporating care focused on treating both physical and mental health. As a resident physician, I have strived to light the flames of hope within my patients and to create and strengthen resilience within them.
During my first month as a resident physician, I took care of a patient, who taught me a powerful lesson on resilience. Mr. Z was an elderly male in his 90s who was admitted to the hospital for acute hypoxic respiratory failure from rapidly worsening newly diagnosed heart failure and pleural effusions. When I first met Mr. Z, I was astonished to see a patient in such high spirits, despite his medical conditions. “Mr. Z, can you tell me if anything is bothering you?” Mr. Z vehemently replied, “Nothing! I’m feeling great!” At our first encounter, Mr. Z was struggling with a fluid overloaded state with increased fluid in his heart and lungs, making it difficult for him to breathe, and severe bilateral lower extremity edema, leaving him functionally restricted. Despite his declining health, he held onto his strong foundation of resilience and eagerly voiced to me his aspirations and bucket list adventures he dreamed to experience upon discharge. His optimism and jubilance was contagious, radiating out to all individuals he met.
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