What the previous, present & future doctors can’t do?
Since many centuries ago, the medical fields have expanded tremendously, from only a few fields of interests including medicine and surgery until the super subspecialty that we can see today. You can name any specialty and you can find a lot of new inventions which they said for the best interests of the patients. The invention of new surgical techniques and development of new, effective drugs have significantly increased the success rate in the treatment of the diseases leading to a better survival and improving patients’ quality of life. But there is one thing that they should not forget…
Our first rotation in medical specialty postings were not so fantastic, it has revealed a lot of our weakness and mistakes that we’ve done before. It doesn’t took a short time for us to develop such complications; the first group to be tested on a new integrated, improving curriculum that they’ve claimed to be among the best in the world, in parallel with the vision of leading the medical profession and influencing the practice worldwide.
The second round would be the respiratory medicine and neurology. My first day in IPR KL which is the tertiary center and the national referral center for the respiratory diseases was a good experience. During the orientation in the morning with the ward sister, one patient has collapsed and the resuscitation team immediately attended the patient and tried their very best to save him and he was intubated. His condition was not so good but they managed to control the acute situation. We continue our ward works, clerking patients and practice the physical examination. After we finished performing Zuhr pray in the afternoon, suddenly there was high-pitched, continuous alarming sound that we know what it meant. It came from the continuous cardiac monitoring machine that showed an asystole rhythm of the patient’s heart. We can saw it very clearly through the window since the surau is situated just behind the ward. The patient passed away...
We just proceed with our scheduled timetable and in the afternoon until one more patient collapsed and they’ve done the same thing. Unfortunately the same outcome they’ve got. The resuscitation failed and the patient was not survived.
I suddenly realized that how great the technology has improved, how good the medicine was, and how hard we try, it was not us that determined the patient’s fate. Some of us thought that the doctors are the healers, the God; they can recognize the disease and start the appropriate treatment and then follow them up regularly and eventually the disease is cured or controlled. But in the end, it is God (Allah) that decides the entire outcome. He is The Healer, and we are just the ‘equipment’ that serves as a medium between Him and the patient. That is the fact and we, especially the future doctors should never ever forget about that, not even once!!
“Sesungguhnya yang baik itu semuanya datang dari Allah dan yang buruk itu datang dari kelemahan diri kita sendiri”
Subhanallah
Foto Ehsan dari Demang 
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"pasukan meraba buntut uitm...abisla buntut bakal patient diorang"
"salah sorang anak dugong baru nak belajar berenang...pergh!!"
