After reading my article on doctors one of the doctor i know told me the insight of doctors!! though nerds they seem fun so y dont i put it in her words..
It’s high time people realised that doctors, like the general population are “normal human beings”!!
There are various ways a person ends up getting into M.B.B.S,
· Out of interest in acquiring knowledge about the human body and science of medicine.
· To render social service, to save lives.
· In compulsion, pressure from the parents, peers, siblings, etc.
It is indeed very rare to find a person getting into medicine with an ambition to earn money, because “quick money” is not possible in the land of medicine. Not that doctors don’t earn money, they do earn pretty much mind you, but it’s a slow and steady process, which takes a lot of patience and patients!!
“Money making” however becomes the top priority in a doctor’s life as they go ahead from becoming an M.B.B.S graduate to post graduates to super specialists and so on and so forth.(the process never ends)
There are a few things one has to keep in mind before getting into medicine that is, they should have ;
· A lot of money or an ability to carry on the debts till one finishes studies, which mind you will take a long time.
· Time, age and patience to wait.
· Interest which tends to diminish with time.
· To have the eagerness for continuous learning throughout their lives.
· To combat stress, difficulties, to face and learn from your mistakes.
· To be responsible for oneself and one’s every act.
· To learn to let go off one’s ego most of the times.
As a person undergoes the training to become a doctor, he/she realises that money actually is a great deal in life after all, because he/she’s drowned in debts, and by the time he/she graduates to start earning to repay his debts, all of his peers are well settled and enjoying. Because of his age factor he has to earn fast and make a living, he has to start off somewhere which needs money again. And the process of continuous learning also needs a great deal of money. (The books itself cost a fortune).
The motto “live to serve” can be followed only if the person lives, which again needs money. Its mere stupidity to blame a doctor for asking money from the patient, after all they are trying to earn their bread and butter too. As for the cost of medicines, it’s not the doctor’s fault right? The cost of the radiological equipments, the operating instruments, the maintenance, all of it requires money again.
Well, and for those who think that “doctors are drug dealers with degree certificates from college” well, I’d say it’s either your ignorance or arrogance or just stupidity to think like that.
A doctor is not God! The reason for their extraordinary patience is because they are so immuned to the behaviour and antiques of the patients that they don’t tend to loose their nerve so easily.
Do you know that educated patients are the silliest patience a doctor can have? Because they ask such obvious silly questions and behave so child like manner. For instance, here are some the silly questions they ask;
· “Will it pain”?? When a doctor wants to give in injection.
· The lady comes for an antenatal check up for her second pregnancy, when asked to produce her scan reports, she says “I forgot to bring it this time, can the previous pregnancy’s scan report do??”
· “How can my blood pressure be high today? I took the tablet just yesterday”!
· “How can it be girl? The last child was a girl so this time it has to be a boy right?!”
· “why did you not inform us before that he’d get heart attack today, we could have called all our relatives”
One common and understandable question asked by almost everyone is, “when will I get cured, will I be fit as normal? How much time will it take to heal?” for this I have to tell you that every human body is as different from each other as their finger print, and their response to treatment varies too, so no doctor can be sure about their treatment. Well that’s why they call a doctor’s work as practice I suppose.
Why medicine is considered a very respectable profession?
Well, because here they deal with lives, as usual. I’m not saying that other profession is any less. Every profession has its own value. An engineer for example also deals with millions of lives, only in an indirect way.
This reminds me of a story where a mechanic asks a cardiologist, “what’s the difference between me and you? You deal with t heart that runs the body and I repair the engine that runs a car? Then why are you paid so high?” for which the doctor replies, “try repairing the engine when its running and without letting it get off while repairing it” now that’s one way to look at it.
Doctors are meant to be perfect; they cannot afford to do any kind of mistake. They have a humungous responsibility not only of the patient but of every person who is connected to the patient also. But then, a doctor is after all a human being, in some rare cases a doctor does a mistake, either in analysing a situation or in negligence of a case. But like I said, it’s rare.
Why all the documentation?
There has been a huge hue and cry about registration of a case before taking any action. But it’s due to the public and the laws which have led to this situation.
I remember my senior telling me about this case which happened during his undergraduate days when a critically ill case who needed immediate operation came to the casualty, the duty doctor without any documentation and delay explained the situation and need for operational intervention to the bystanders and ordered to shift the patient to operation theatre. The bystanders agreed. But unfortunately the patient expired on the way to the theatre. And just because of improper documentation, the bystanders refused to have been asked for any opinion and filed a case against the doctor and literally destroyed the whole hospital into bits and pieces.
I remember another case where in a little girl who had a major abdominal infection was getting operated, but during the operation the surgeon realised that the focus of infection was from the girl’s uterus and the girl could be saved only if her uterus was removed, so he went ahead and removed it. On realising this parents filed a case on the doctor accusing him for spoiling the girl’s life. They however didn’t win the case, but then this is an example which shows how much important a small documentation is. There are hundred other cases like this, which puts the doctor’s job in risk, so they need to maintain the records and consider that before taking any action on any case.
I would not generalise these statements though. Because I know many doctors who have been a shame to the profession. Who follow unethical practices, who work for only money and have selfish intentions in their treatment. And I have also seen many doctors also who resist the greed of money and work for mere service and satisfaction for serving the mankind. So there are people of every spectrum present in the community.
But somehow it’s a human tendency have satisfaction by making fun of other’s misery, or somehow make a joke out of successful people. Like the saying goes, “the tree with the sweetest fruits gets hit by the maximum number of stones”.
So when I googled “doctors” in the internet, I realised there a zillion articles and blogs on doctors, and almost all of them are the ones making fun of., and swearing at doctors. So I realised one thing, these articles are written by:-
People who are unemployed, jobless, have no insight, and are jealous of the success of doctors.
· People who are so insecure about their job that they feel inferior to this noble profession.
·People who have no respect what-so-ever for either their profession or any other profession.
· People who have been blinded by the mere un-intelligent conclusions drawn from the various situations encountered.
· People who want to follow the crowd because of inability to make an opinion of their own.
· People who want gain popularity for their article by writing something that the public readers will relish and are mere cowards to write an honest opinion.
· T·hose unfortunate people who have actually had a bad experience with an un-ethically practising doctor.
And the reasons why doctors don’t protest or write articles where they can explain about their lives and write the truth about the profession are because;
· The doctors are too busy either studying or practising.
· Doctors know their truth and don’t need to write it or explain it to the public as to why what and how they do things.
· Everybody knows that no matter how much anyone mocks at the doctors, they are real heroes in their own ways, and people will have to come finally to their refuge to have a healthy life.
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