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Good morning Kelly from Canada. No offense taken. I know what it's like. You feel like nobody listens to you. Nobody cares. People are listening. Just have to remember even transplant doctors and especially specialists aren't taught bedside manner and medical school. The way it was described to me by one of my specialists was you hit a fork in the road and you either choose general medicine to one side or specialty to the other side. If you choose a specialty you focus on the specialty that you are choosing. I'm going to go the route of gastroenterology because that's what we're dealing with. If you choose general medicine, chances are you're going to go into family medicine or Pediatrics. So in those teachings they teach you bedside manner. They teach you how to deal with peoples anxiety, emotions, all the other things besides the disease. If you choose specialty, they don't teach you that because you're going to focus on gastroenterology or you're going to go down the rabbit hole of hepatology, meaning that you are going to focus mostly on the liver. You're not even looking at anything else inside the gastric world you're dealing with the liver. And you can specialize even more and delete strictly with diseases of the liver and one disease at a time. So they don't learn these things. They don't learn that you as a patient are full of anxiety, fear and that these lead you into negative feelings. Just follow their advice. I had a liver transplant in October 2020 and I am alive today because I followed their advice pre-transplant and then followed their advice and I stayed positive. May God bless you and keep you through your journey and keep us in touch and let us know how you're doing 💗💗💗💗💪🇨🇦🍁

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What a lovely, thoughtful, educational, and articulate response. You know how I feel and reminded me so of the complexity of people and what we do (inclusive of everyone at Mayo - I even love the cafeteria staff!)

I want you also to know that you are one of the people I consider constant, with caring, in-depth replies to posts that are more complex they appear in the words.

On a final note, and knowing how awful I feel about being misconstrued - I received MY gift yesterday morning, and recovering at Mayo Clinic Phoenix, currently in the ICU (soon to be moved to the transplant ward).

Thank you for you my fellow experiencer and share of life.

Kelly