PATIENTS

Patients....
There was once a prof said: u are not qualified to call someone your patient if
1) you don't know her/his name
2) you don't know why she/he is here
3) you din even take initiation to approach her/him
4) your are not willing to spend your time with her/him to know why she/he is here

suddenly i felt that it was just so true. If she/he is not your patient, then you are not qualified to call them your patient and also you are not going to be the choosen one to treat them.

QUITE TRUE afterall.
besides i started to felt that a malay proverbs saying " tak kenal maka tak cinta" really means something for me now.

i thought i was so cold blood a few weeks ago after enter surgery posting, dun even felt a thing when there is someone dying in front of me ( which previously i will as if they were my parents and sad like hell for a few days),until today i learned that a patient that i had really had my teaching on and which i had actually palpate and try to talk to him had died yesterday after i left the ward no long ago....i thought it will be another death case for me which i just treat it as nothing. yet until now...i am thinking back of him...foresee his circumstances, his suffer during the last few hours,which i realise that i actually care...

hah,maybe that is y ppl say, u will started to care for someone when u started to know someone.the more u know the more u care. i guess this is why our prof said so.

acceptable now.