Who’s actually being arrogant here: the patient showing up at 3 AM to see a doctor for a sore throat—something that isn't going to suddenly turn fatal by sunrise—or the doctor who gets called in, acts grumpy because they’ve been on their feet all day and maybe squeezed in two hours of sleep, yet still manages to do their job.
I remember this one brutal night shift in the infectious disease ward... my colleague and I had been running around like madmen since morning, the clinic was packed, just sprinting back and forth for quick bathroom breaks or a fifteen-minute bite to eat. Then a nurse walks into the exam room and tells me, "Doctor, dinner is served at 7," and right then, the little kid I'm examining looks up at me with this heartbreakingly accusatory tone and says, "But the waiting room is full."
Honestly, my blood was boiling... the only thing keeping me from losing my cool and letting everyone have it was how I was raised. I mean, seriously, what kind of machine runs without fuel? Yet I'm expected to work without food, water, or even a bathroom break until I pass out. Humanity? Where's the humanity for us?
I don't take bribes, even though people have offered me a few times. And I treat every single patient like a human being. Unfortunately, I can't say the same applies to how they treat me. It really stings when I've been accused multiple times of taking kickbacks just because I'm a doctor. Like, where do people get the right to dump their frustrations on me? What does that have to do with anything? For example, I have zero connection to those high-flying cardiac surgeons over in the big metropolitan hospitals. I drive a Korean car, I'm paying off a mortgage that'll last until I'm old, and one of these days I might just snap and break someone's teeth if they accuse me of corruption again.
Don't you see how medical errors are used as a smokescreen to distract from the status quo whenever something goes wrong? They just fill up the pages during pickling season. A friend of mine was convinced that meningococcal sepsis is more common in the summer just because there's more coverage about it in the news. Which is completely contrary to the truth. And how can anyone trust newspapers that call meningocccal a "bacterium"... calling a spherical bacterium a rod shape... which is totally wrong and just amateurish writing.
Exclusivity is a nasty thing. Intolerance is too. Maybe it makes life easier because you don't have to think as much, but it's sad to see how much it's spread. In a country where I've chosen to stay because I love it, even while my friends moved to the States and are making ten times what I am.
I remember this one brutal night shift in the infectious disease ward... my colleague and I had been running around like madmen since morning, the clinic was packed, just sprinting back and forth for quick bathroom breaks or a fifteen-minute bite to eat. Then a nurse walks into the exam room and tells me, "Doctor, dinner is served at 7," and right then, the little kid I'm examining looks up at me with this heartbreakingly accusatory tone and says, "But the waiting room is full."
Honestly, my blood was boiling... the only thing keeping me from losing my cool and letting everyone have it was how I was raised. I mean, seriously, what kind of machine runs without fuel? Yet I'm expected to work without food, water, or even a bathroom break until I pass out. Humanity? Where's the humanity for us?
I don't take bribes, even though people have offered me a few times. And I treat every single patient like a human being. Unfortunately, I can't say the same applies to how they treat me. It really stings when I've been accused multiple times of taking kickbacks just because I'm a doctor. Like, where do people get the right to dump their frustrations on me? What does that have to do with anything? For example, I have zero connection to those high-flying cardiac surgeons over in the big metropolitan hospitals. I drive a Korean car, I'm paying off a mortgage that'll last until I'm old, and one of these days I might just snap and break someone's teeth if they accuse me of corruption again.
Don't you see how medical errors are used as a smokescreen to distract from the status quo whenever something goes wrong? They just fill up the pages during pickling season. A friend of mine was convinced that meningococcal sepsis is more common in the summer just because there's more coverage about it in the news. Which is completely contrary to the truth. And how can anyone trust newspapers that call meningocccal a "bacterium"... calling a spherical bacterium a rod shape... which is totally wrong and just amateurish writing.
Exclusivity is a nasty thing. Intolerance is too. Maybe it makes life easier because you don't have to think as much, but it's sad to see how much it's spread. In a country where I've chosen to stay because I love it, even while my friends moved to the States and are making ten times what I am.