““In our job, you will never go home at the end of the day thinking that you haven’t done something valuable and important.””
― ~Suneel Dhand
Hospitals, least of all the public gathering places, are the last place for a hangout. It is scary and doctors and caretakers are presumed to be the most hated-loved creatures depending upon the situation if they can cure the patients brought to them.
Corridors are filled with the sight of white courts, blue plastic covers, injections, insulins, colorful tablets, bottles of syrup, and white bandages carried on by nurses from one room to another. And there is a predominant smell of blood and burn that fills the space in between the sick breaths of corridors.
Freud in his essay “The Uncanny”, talks about how certain phenomena come to be associated with certain places and that gives rise to various uncanny notions within us. Like in life, we have lost and found lives in hospitals. We have seen children take birth and grown-ups die there. Thus, there is a mixed feeling of joy and sadness associated with the corridors of the hospitals.
But an important question arises here: How do the doctors, nurses, and caretakers live a joyful life within the premises of injury, pain, and suffering? Upon interviewing, a doctor replied, “It is difficult for us to have a work-life balance. It is a challenging profession but at the same time, it is satisfying and fulfilling. With years of practice, we gradually cultivate peace and calmness within ourselves to deal with patients of critical cases. But at the same time, we make sure to drop the worries of the last patient’s case otherwise it would be difficult to treat another with full attention and care.”
They, the noblest of all the professions with humble courtesy treat the sick ailments of patients with little or no gratitude. We need to be more grateful and kind towards them. We need to learn to treat them with the utmost respect and belief.
Next time, when we are wandering among the lanes of the hospital we should look for positivity and share the joy with the caregivers who deserve our sincere apology for negligence.
Stay with
Prerna 🙂
