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The moment when I don’t want to be a doctor

Disclaimer: Not all of the details will be written as to respect the patient. “To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always” – It is what a doctor’s main responsibility. I remember that sacred line by Dr. Edward Trudeau said by my lecturers back in med-school and for six years I have been repeatedly told about it, that the sentence engraved within my sub-consciousness yet my willingness to cure overweight my judgment to comfort that night. It was around 7.30 PM when a nurse called me to the ward to check on a patient. She had dyspnea, her breathing was not optimal and although we gave the supplementary oxygen and her SpO2 was 96% I knew something was wrong. The next two hours I found myself sweating from going back and forth to the ER and the ward because oddly our ER that used to be quiet had other patients waiting to see me including another one with dyspnea and as I went to the ward to check on her, her GCS is fastly dropping. I called the family, h