responsibility

old man says great power comes with great responsibility.
i never used to understand what it takes to be the man with great power... =) im not saying those superpowers like superman, power rangers, batman or etc...

im a 4th year medical student..attending clinical years in hospital....another year and i will be finishing my medical life and starting my life as a doctor.. i remember when i first enter medical school i am just a little girl walking into the life of adulthood.. what it takes to be hospital?? what is doctor? what will be our life sound like... is just me and patient.. never did i know the magical bond between doctors and patient till i enter my clinical years...

the first time i walk into the hospital, everything look amazing... for someone who dont really exposed to everything related to medical, it does look amazing... then here goes the 36 hours of walking, limited time of sleeping and unorganized time of break.... everything becomes DARK!!! why am i picking medic?? why am i here?? why i want to be a doctor...

we study our ass off... we work our butt away... exposed to all kind of injury, facing all types of patient, having stress imposed on us, and lost the social life we used to have.. and yet our pay is just the same like those 9am to 5pm office worker.. and probably lower than the businessman... worst of all, the society thought we earn like crazy, forcing money out from all patient we treat, and we are those people who NEED to be a know-it-all... anyone who thinks we earn a lot, please re-do your survey because we definitely DONT.... slowly, life doesnt seems to be good... even my mum says only stupid people choose to be doctor... =)

i kinda agree though... we dont have the college life one would have... things we need to know, we need to know for life.. looking at some of my friends who had their holiday long enough to go for a backpack in europe, i cant deny how jealous i am... they can get pass their exams just by flipping their notes last minute.. they can choose to ignore some certain facts they think it is hard... life goes by their way...what we had then?? we work more hours than others, we study more than others.. even the slightest information, it needs to be in our mind... we cant joke around, we cant fool around..

even the phrase "i think it could be..." is a taboo in our life.. we need to be fast, we need to be certain and top of all, despite the fast and certain, we need to be accurate.. every decision made, we need to be answerable to not only ourself, bt to the patient.. any decision either being late or wrong, it would cost the life of the patient...

we exposed to the greatest risk of having gastric perforation, we had the highest risk of being suicidal, we had cancer easier than anyone in this world, we faced any infection more than anyone.. if there is an outbreak, we were at the first line... is this job good enough??? you can choose to walk away from people with hepatitis B, you can walk away from people with HIV.. we dont discriminate, we dont stereotype... they had the same rights in the eyes of medicine... did i ever talk about a houseman who got hepatitis C while giving injection to a patient?? he accidentally prick himself after withdrawing blood from patient... accident shouldnt happen... but then, how can we prevent accident?? accident happen without warning...

we tried the best to treat a person, and it has only 2 consequence of either "THANK YOU" or "IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, I WILL GONNA SUE YOU!!"

so what is the fun of being a doctor???

someone ask me before, why did i choose medic?? life isnt easy for us.. our life isnt easy, our pay isnt high, our risk is high, our work time is longer than anyone else, and we paid a high tuition fees in university...

what i say, it's only passion that can drive one thru their life as a doctor... patient would be the reason why i stay as a doctor... if you are a person who loves to save other people life, if you are the person who willing to put other's life before yours..then yes, pick medicine.. if not, please dont because at the end, u will have to give up everything... if u ask me what would be the biggest repay of being a doctor, it would the smile, the happiness, the gratitude and a sentence from patient... THANK YOU!!

to look at the patient and to tell them "you are fine now" "u can be discharged" the happiness in patient when they smile to you... that is the best scene u will never forget... when they see you and greet you "doctor, good morning" or "thank you doctor" it is just so pure and sincere... little kids look at you feeling amazed...adults look at you feeling respect... that is the repay for a doctor and top of all, this is what makes all the tears and sweats worth while...

the heavy responsibility of a doctor.... the tears and sweats.... it all comes down to one - the gratitude of patient... with only this, it makes us alive and strong... and keep us going~~ patient had a wish when it comes to doctors which is to get heal... and we had only one wish to them is to fulfill it and make them healed... as a fairy godmother of theirs, their smile is what we want~ =)