Hospital

As a medical school graduate, Hospital is a school to me. I learnt theoretically and practically about medical there. But when I did my years of study there, I found out that hospital is a lot more than just a school to be a doctor. There’s something greater I have learnt from hospital. To me, it is also a school of life and taught me to be more thankful in this life.

It was a weekend when I did my night shift on a public hospital, suddenly a 35-years old male came to the ER (Emergency Room) with a knife stab on his left chest. He came breathlessly to the ER with his friend. When I stabilize him, he talked to me breath-by-breath “please do save me, I have a family to feed”. 

After sent him to the OR (Operation Room) to being treated by surgeon, I was thinking how important life is. How I should be grateful to have a life while here at the hospital, thousands of people want to live. It made me thankful that God still let me breathing effortlessly. 

When I did a patient visits on the inpatient department, sometimes I saw patients with feeding disabilities due to malignancy. And it also makes me grateful simply because I could eat ice cream as much as I want while these patients could not. A poor man might not be able to buy ice creams, but the richest man in the world might not be able to eat ice creams too if he suffered the disease. 

Years of my medical studies made me think that we should never feel that life is unfair because of problems that we have. We should always be thankful simply because the most important things that we need to be happy are usually free. We are able to breath, speak, laugh, drink, eat, walk, communicate, and love effortlessly. And those are the most important things in life.