Yesterday I had a 4 yr child coming to me with a stick injury resulting in corneal(black portion of the eye) tear with bleeding in the eye… the result can be varied in such cases, from complete recovery to loss of eye due to infection… also the patient was poor… so I advised the patient to go to KEM where I could arrange everything and the whole sugery would cost around 500-600 rupees whereas in private the expenses would go to nearly 5000 as it would require general anesthesia… but the relative of the patient was hell bent upon me doing the surgery as she had full faith in me… her words “nahi sir 2 paisa jyada lage toh bhi thik lekin aap ke haath se hua toh humko koi tension nahi” still linger in my mind… I tried best to explain her tht results vary n instead of spending so much she should go to KEM but to no avail… again she said to the mother of the child “yeh doctor yahan ke sabse acche hai… inhone operation kiya toh accha hi hoga”… the faith she put in me left me spell bound… infact put me more under pressure to perform my best… even after operating that child I felt that I may not have been able to perform to match her expectations… the fact that I am HUMAN and the patient put me in God’s seat troubled me a lot… today am goin to open the childs eye pad after finishing this blog… n am very very nervous…
It feels very good to know that the patient trusts you but it is dangerous when they start considering you God… infact in both my hospitals I have written a note outside my opd… ‘the person sitting inside is HUMAN n not GOD’…
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