Helpless

Soemtimes
i just feel helpless
People around seems don't understand our job...
Unless you are in the practise, or else it is difficult for you to understand what are we been through,
as a doctor....

For most people,
sick is common cold...
The reason they see a doctor are mostly for URTI and AGE....
A lot of healthy people don't realize the diversity of diseases out there...
For them, these maybe only occur in drama or movies...

Well, i will think they are lucky...
Cervical cancer with spinal metastasis causing paralysis...
Ovarian cancer with distant metastases unable to undergo chemo d/t renal impairment
Breast cancer in pregnancy necessitating termination of pregnancy
Invasive mole with massive bleeding requiring massive blood transfusion and chemotherapy
Cervical ca with bilateral obstructive uropathy complicated by urosepsis
These are the few cases i met in my few weeks time in Gynea Onco unit...
Not a cheerful unit...
But i learn a lot...

Healthy people out there has no idea what are we facing...
They also has no idea what cancer patient facing...
It is very difficult to make them understand
but why waste energy and time?

This is the life we choose...
To treat, to help, to care, to comfort....

"Out here in the fields

I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven"

                                         -Baba O'Riley