Its amazing how much medicine has progressed over the years. They have gadgets that are so sophisticated that it bleeps and groans at the discovery of everything. The machine groans and groans that the patient doubts if he or she will survive at the end of the examination. The lack of warmth, familiarity and certainty can put just about any healthy individual into a trauma worthy of cardiac arrest.
I hate hospitals.
You may argue that happiness do exist in hospitals. You may say that people are healed, borned and re-borned there. But how many? So many leave in despair. So many leave in fear. So many leave in tears as they lose all hope. So many that it out numbers all the joy. No matter how hard the management tries to plaster every free wall space with colourful potraits and drawings, the whole place comes off dull and dark.
The sick are numbed by their doctors' countless attempts to make them better. To mend and repair. Some remain motionless although what the doctors are doing hurts them. They've recited time and time again in their hearts that it will all soon go away. Again and yet again.
Even the tiny are not spared. A smile or kind word is so greatly appreciated and never once taken for granted.
Doctors and nurses are brave people who are capable of withstanding hurting people in order to rid them of pain. My heart goes out to all of you. But please don't turn into cranky, shouting people who are easily iritated with your patient's blurness. Please.
~A glimpse of your pain is forever tormenting me. [numbed]
minx wrote at3:47 PM
