Healthcare workers pls give a girl some advice and words of encouragement.
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Healthcare workers pls give a girl some advice and words of encouragement. Hey so I have a question for anyone who works in healthcare as a stutter. I am a student who works in a field of healthcare that thankfully has minimal patient contact but it’s still a part of my job. Part of my clinical rotations included a section that was just for the one part of my career I have with patients which is phlebotomy. I was so scared for this because of my stutter. It’s mild most days but some days it’s bad and even on mild days I have certain words and sounds that I just simply cannot say if that makes sense and sometimes with patient conversation I can’t avoid them and it kept making me embarrassed anytime it happened. Thankfully my preceptors were always so nice to me and helped me through it and the patients were usually nice old people who were always so kind to me. I’m just worried for when I start working on how to deal with it when I’m not a student anymore and on my own. I also have situations where I have to call doctors or nurses about issues or reports and during my clinicals there were many times where I’d have to do this and couldn’t say the word i needed to say and I can’t change the word because it’s scientific medical terms because in my daily life I make word switches to avoid my stutter if I can and I’m just trying to get some advice on how to handle this when I’m on my own in the real world of work and not my student life I’m in right now. I’ve been lucky with kind people so far but I know that’s not gonna always be the case.