THE DANGER WITH DANGER
It’s Friday, TGIF and we all cannot wait for
the lecturer to stop the blah blah. Then the craziness begins. We are
only young so we have to live it up. We go on compensation mode for all
the fun we have missed out. It’s compensation mode and a serious problem
at that for all medicine students. The irony of finding a medical
student guzzling down, puffing in and swallowing poisons beats logic-
but aren’t we the worst patients after all? Why do we think as medics we have certain immunity to ignorance or arrogance? We know the dangers yet we dance with snake trying to charm it?
I met a female student who’d bleached herself white and her high-school
classmates cannot help but wonder just what are we taught in our
classes? Medicine is a noble profession, my lecturer always says. She
reaffirms the point every time she has to address dressing code when we
go to hospital. We are not lawyers to be given a dress code but that
might soon have to change if the minis and micros start sneaking in
front of our patient’s eyes. Yes, we have barely enough time to “get a
life” but we are the life to millions of eager hearts out there. Yes, we
might miss out on a lot but we will not miss out on everything.
Someone’s prayer out there is you- a medic who lives according to the
Hippocratic Oath and most of all, can protect themselves.
