A meeting with a publisher at a publisher, unintentionally embarrassed the other person.

"Why do people hate doctors so much?"



Did you feel rude? They even invested in me to make a book about a doctor's story. So, as a writer, I treated me with the greatest manners. I watched carefully if I was offended by any chance, and replied, "No way, people respect doctors." I felt a little sorry. I wondered if I asked for something useless.

But I was really curious. You rarely meet people who are not doctors except for patients. It was a meeting with a non-medical person after a long time, and I was only asking what I was most curious about. If you think about it, they were right. Although not respected, many patients express their gratitude to doctors who provide accurate and correct guidelines for their body. Sometimes there are patients who express hostility, and the (us) doctors remain hurt and think,'Why do people hate doctors so much?'


In some columns, I wrote this. "Imagine the feeling of letting someone else make decisions about your body. It's a very dirty feeling," he said, "the state of mind the patient has about the doctor." I understand. I think so too. After all, the situation in the relationship creates a bad condition, and if so, there is a solution. It is enough to explain the patient's current condition and maximize the degree of self-determination. Also, if the situation is well organized, the relationship between the doctor and the patient improves. In any case, the patient accepts when he is healed. But what about a disease that is difficult to heal? And what if the patient doesn't recognize his illness? They will hate the doctor to die. Awareness of illness is the beginning of all treatments. If so, it is difficult to entrust everything to the patient and do it on their own.

In fact, there is this particular group of patients. Some people with psychiatric illnesses tend to blame the doctor for all results. Of course, not all of these people hate doctors. No, there are more patients who like and rely on doctors. They only hate more than those with other diseases. Anyway, these patients, to explain, are those who solve the treatment itself in a relationship with a doctor.

In the psychiatric ward, sometimes, "You hate doctors like that?" When I told my thoughts to a psychiatrist, he replied, "It wasn't really hating the doctor, but hostility toward something." It was an understandable explanation. Even if I understood it, it was not easy to accept it with my heart. This is because I saw hatred actually turn into physical violence and rise.

I was an intern guarding a psychiatric closed ward. I was standing in the hallway this morning, and the professor and the resident were organizing rounds that morning. Roundups are usually talks about prescriptions that go out on the same day. Of course, there is no room for mischief about the patient. While they were busy organizing their rounds, I was moving around the ward. However, as one patient passed by, I felt a glance at me. Although he was short, he was a scary-looking man with wide shoulders. He was also suffering from delusions of damage. I felt a little suspicious. Soon, when Goseong broke the ward's silence, I could see that my premonition was right.

"Don't gossip about me! These xxx guys!" The patient screamed and recklessly plunged into the round team. It ran fast, and the distance was short, so I felt like I would reach it soon. It was a dangerous situation. I took my shoulder without thinking. It seemed like a really big thing would happen if I ran as it was. As he ran, he hit my shoulder and staggered. Now, the direction of hostility turned to me. He threw a fist at me, angry at interrupting his work. While raising his arms, one of the attacks hit my watch, and he rolled over to the floor making a noise. So the situation ended.


At the time, I was very fortunate to be able to prevent dangerous situations. But the more I thought about it, the more I was scared. It was a closed ward, and the patient was bare. 

But what if it was an open space?
What if he had picked up a weapon?
What if you really wanted to get rid of everything in front of you?


Can I write this article leisurely in front of the computer? Eventually, I was lucky enough to admit that I was alive.

Two years ago, two psychiatrists were murdered by a patient. The perpetrators hated the doctor, but the media reported that they were usually'respected and committed doctors'. Seeing these sad events, I remembered the day again. I was lucky. It wasn't something to shed as a saga. I could be a doctor stabbed by someone else's knife.

Try to get to know the hearts of the patients. Every doctor will. I want to understand and empathize with them. But this time it doesn't work. It's probably because I've never been in pain enough to die, and I've never hated others enough to kill. Still hard to accept. It is only a pity that the doctor who died. However, I want to believe that the system makers have seen these tragedies and now have taken measures. This time only.

I no longer want to see unfair death.

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