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Monday, October 29, 2007
special ones.
9:16 PM today, i kind of stayed for the cofm presentations on the different special schools in singapore. we all wanted to leave but the lecturer was already walking in so we had to stay on and watch those pple present. i was quite reluctant to stay on initially(but i slept my bit during the bact lecture), so i was pretty much awake and listened through all the presentations. and i found out that actually there are a lot of people out there who are a lot more unfortunate than we are. we probably always knew that they existed, but probably we're too caught up with our own lives to be bothered with them. i'm pretty sure that most of us said in our interviews that we wanna read medicine because we wanna help those who are ill, those who's got some defects in them and we wanna heal them so that they can go back to normal and lead normal lives. but at the end of the day, so much mugging drains us away and makes us forget why we really wanna do medicine. we care more about upcoming CAs, exams, trivials about immuno and microb than those people around us. those people whom one day will be our potential patients and those wom we need to relate to and try our best to render help in one way or another to make their lives a little easier, like ours. maybe medicine isn't just about treating the man who came in with stroke or AMI, okay. those patients have to be treated. but we've always forgotten about the patients who are born with congenital defects, who suffer the aftermath of strokes and those who just wanna be normal like us. maybe that's why some people call medicine an art of healing, rather than science. maybe that's why cofm is important. maybe, there's a lot more to the career as a doctor than just notes. it's about the people, the patients, the way we understand and relate to them, the way we look after their needs, the way that we do not forget about those suffering from disabilities and have to deal with life-long management, their problems might not be as pressing as acute cases, but maybe they need help and support more than anyone else. and maybe, today's presentation wasn't that useless, maybe it's not even useless at all. |