Doctors, angels in white. Sometimes I wonder why they wear white robes and not other color, say blue or red. Ask anyone on the street, what do you think of doctors in general. Most probably, the answers given are “smart, cream of the crop of society’s elites, rich, they save people, they can do almost anything, etc.” How many will say that “doctors?They are human like us.”I sympathized with them coz they hold such high standards that they are not even allowed to fail. They are there to support others but who will support them when they crumble? Even the strongest person on earth will collapse one day.
Alas, it’s human nature to fail. I guess it’s hard to see our own self failing after getting used to success. Observers may see many ways out from certain situations. Some may ask, “why can’t he or she see things in these way” or “the sign is obvious, can’t he at least feel that things are wrong?”. But, how many will think like observers do when disasters strike? Anyway, back to doctors, they healed numbers of patients. Some keep track some do not. One doc said,”in med school they told us to keep a person alive is the what doctors should do. But, in hospitals, especially in cancer wards or any terminal diseases wards, the most important thing is to respect patients’ decisions and ease their pain as much as possible before they set off.” I don’t know whether this apply to all med school or/and all hospitals. There’s a dilemma here isn’t it? One is kept alive when he or she prefers to be dead. So what’s the deal here?In who’s hand the decision lies?Doctors, families or oneself?
A doctor’s foetus is diagnosed with a possibility of having Down’s syndrome after a number of tests with different doctors. She herself is a gynaecologist (do I spell it right?)and obviously very clear on the consequences of carrying her baby to term. Is it right for her to stop the pregnancy?Reasons?For the sake of baby’s future and parents’future. What would you do if you are in her position? This is a similar situation to Euthanasia; killing for the sake of the person killed. When things are bleak and paths are surrounded by darkness, how long more one should perservere before the light shows its glory?