A CASE OF THE SICK DOCTOR

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.