What I learnt past weeks in different situations is that first impression is not always how people really are. While usually a lot of people after the first impression already draw conclusions - I like him/her/ I don't like him/her. In most of the cases people either wear a mask or have a wall around them or they are just afraid or shy to show who they really are. Why don't we just give people a chance? I myself have to keep reminding myself over and over and when I give them a chance I, in most of the cases, find something beautiful I would not have discovered earlier
zondag 22 juni 2014
zaterdag 14 juni 2014
An experience out of a doctor's life
Let me share with you a moment out of a doctor's life that made me think and made me humble:
I have an 80 year old male patient. He has cancer in a far stage. He is sometimes a bit confused because of his starting dementia, but he has his clear moments. And today he said someting unexpected. I wished him and his daughters a good weekend an afternoon last week and he said: "thank you doctor, for letting me gaze every morning into one of the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen". I had to laugh, because he said it with such a serious face and thanked him for the big compliment.
A man who might not live long anymore and gazing into my eyes every morning, well more times on the day actually, is a small joy for him. And perhaps he said it in a not clear moment, perhaps he was not serious at all, but in all that we say is always a little truth. And he is still looking, in a confused moment or not, for the small moments of joy in his life.
All these patients have special stories of their lives. So has this man and these life stories inspire me. It shows what fighting and will power humans have. We can overcome a lot.
And at the end of our life, what will we think of what we made out of it? Would we be longing to look into a pair of beautiful eyes as well? Well, this man can gaze into my eyes after the weekend again, because he is not leaving the hospital soon. Atleast I and the nurses have made him laugh also this week.
A day not laughed is a day not lived.
I have an 80 year old male patient. He has cancer in a far stage. He is sometimes a bit confused because of his starting dementia, but he has his clear moments. And today he said someting unexpected. I wished him and his daughters a good weekend an afternoon last week and he said: "thank you doctor, for letting me gaze every morning into one of the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen". I had to laugh, because he said it with such a serious face and thanked him for the big compliment.
A man who might not live long anymore and gazing into my eyes every morning, well more times on the day actually, is a small joy for him. And perhaps he said it in a not clear moment, perhaps he was not serious at all, but in all that we say is always a little truth. And he is still looking, in a confused moment or not, for the small moments of joy in his life.
All these patients have special stories of their lives. So has this man and these life stories inspire me. It shows what fighting and will power humans have. We can overcome a lot.
And at the end of our life, what will we think of what we made out of it? Would we be longing to look into a pair of beautiful eyes as well? Well, this man can gaze into my eyes after the weekend again, because he is not leaving the hospital soon. Atleast I and the nurses have made him laugh also this week.
A day not laughed is a day not lived.
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