Recently me and my family celebrated Eid Ul-Fitri. This is my first Eid as an Emergency Physician (EP). Here are some of the remarks I got regarding my profession (most of them translated of course…)
Aunt #1: So you can treat anything and everything???...
Me: No Aunt, just anything to do with emergency situation.. including finding a taxi and a coffin..
Cousin #1: You are an EP now, so when are going to be a specialist???
Me: … (Stunted)….
Cousin #2: So (since you are a specialist now) you are not seeing patients anymore.
Me: I’m responsible for hundred off them perday, review a handful of them, fought for some of them, conducting procedures and sadly pronounced death for a small fraction of them.
Cousin #3: Now that you have become a specialist, Life will be easier for us. Recently I was found to have an enlarged uterus for more than 6 months. I’m currently under gynecologist follow-up. May be you can help out….
Me: Please continue the follow up. In emergency department, we take care of acute illnesses. We will refer this kind of cases to the same person that you have seen.
Aunt #2: So you are specialized in Emergency Medicine… I just get to know about it recently.
Me: Thank God…Finally.
I’m not surprise with some of the remarks. “Emergency Medicine” and EP’s are still young in Medical Field. We still have a long way to go.
Selamat Hari Raya to all
2 comments:
yah right!! i m so impressed with the remarks that ppl made on ur profession field :) well, ppl will never understand n its really hard to make ppl understand thngs that they ar not into.. the best way is smile n stay cool..as u noe urself better .
Buck up bro!!!!
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