Something reminded me today,...a piece of news of death!!

I remember one unexpected medical event I encountered was in Winton Hospital, located in central of Queensland where there was only a doctor in town. I met a nurse there and every now and then was able to have chats with her during her night-shifts. One night she was on night duty, a patient in the hospital died because of the delay of the management by the doctor. He was off and asked the nurse to give some medicine to calm the patient on the phone as the patient showed agitated further with time.

At that time, I was there and understood that the condition of the patient became severe. I hated myself at the time since not being able to offer any help. The early morning the doctor came, and was not sure of the patient’s condition and the underlying cause of his symptoms, and hence the patient was further given more medicines for his agitation and agressiveness. The patient died as a result. In fact, someone might be sued later on during the lengthy internal meetings at the hospital. There was nothing wrong with the nurse on duty that night. She exactly did what be told and however, she had been upset and kind of blamed herself. Over time, somehow I had become her counselor since the day I was at the ward with her to know what happened and experienced that fatal event during my life for the first time.

In the back of my mind, understand that be a strong, educated and knowledgeable person to help people may not be easy, particularly with passion and enthusiasm for others; the path where I am approaching should be the way for me to work with someone in needs, for the least effort that I am able to put in, hoping that we are all able to have a good health and prospect for our future. Since health is a fundamental and basic we need to gain, and then further to look for others, other desires that people have much for in their lives...like Disneyland! We all dearm of being part of it one day, with flying colours.