Playing with God…R v?
Attended a CME talk today, during lunch time which given by our Haematologist - DR Tan. The titile is ‘STEM CELL and TRANSPLANTATION’. Learn lot n enjoyed her talk much. Her duty is nv be easy. Everyday, she face her cancer patient in the hospital who are from different races, different ages n from different coutries. She is all the time try her best to cure her patient, n gv advice to patient’s family as well. Anyway, she said that her job sometimes is like ‘playing with God’. This impressed me lot coz she said, sometimes, v know that certain patient is already too late for treatment, bcoz they delayed the time to seek for treatment, or realized the disease when its proceeded to final stage. But DR Tan, as a DR, she cannot tell the truth but still need to try her best to cure the patient, whatever methods.
And, there were some cases which she had done her best, that she had successfully cured the patient from cacer. But, after some period of time, the patient passed away, not bcoz of the cancer, but from other infection…Thats her means of ‘playing with God’….and there is a case that she showed us, where a cancer patient which have done his stem cell transplant, was cured from the cancer, but his body skin was starting to peel off, at the end, he had became a ’skinless-man’, all red fleshes, with no single piece of skin found on his body. His body was exposed to the infection, n passed away due to infection in few mths time. Feel sad to hear of this, coz v dunno whether v did the right thing to the patient. That, when v r trying to cure them, r v actually make them suffered more??…..
October 3rd, 2006 at 12:52 pm
wel, as docs - they always try their best. unfortunately, some dun even try! that is worst.
October 3rd, 2006 at 7:17 pm
yupp, really got gp of patient suffered under some selfish docs,they dare to do this juz bcoz of their own profit..so sad…
October 4th, 2006 at 8:00 am
i think this is dr responsibility to treat patient with whatever resource they have or they can….but if dr din try the patient might not hv more longer time to spend with family..
hmm, i’m working with stem cells bank….related hehe
October 5th, 2006 at 6:21 am
Times to call by GOD, u cant do anything right? But if caused by selfish doctors cos no profit can be earned from poor patients, they’d be go to H*ll!
October 8th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
kat,u working with stem cell?is it u hv to do all the stem cells preservation or juz collect the stem cells?private or government company?
October 8th, 2006 at 10:13 pm
jim, actually i got nothing to say to those selfish docs, if they really feel good treating their patient like that, then v cant do anything oso..