Judging patients

Sometimes it is hard to not judge your patients on either who they are or the reasons for why they were admitted into hospital. I was on a burns unit and there are many ways people sustain burns including work and home accidents but also self harm. Its sometimes hard to not get carried away with what the notes say and how other staff members percieve the patient. Anyway I had a young male patient who I built really good rapport with and our treatment sessions were always good fun and effective. For some reason or another I missed in the notes that he had a history of IV drug use but no longer did it now. When I went back and read the notes again and noticed this, i started judging the patient because of this. Luckily this passed when I went and saw the patient the next time and I carried no judgement with me. This experience made me think about our role of physios of treating every patient equally and to the best of our ability. What the patient has done in the passed or is doing should be in the back of our minds when treating the patient but in no way should it make us treat the patient less or with less quality. Sometimes judgement does gets the better of us and can affect our treatments but learning to deal with this is so important for us as well as the patient's well being!