A doctor's visit..

last nite, a friend/a senior/a facilitator of mine came by my house.

He is Abg Firdaus Ujang.. ops.. now he is Dr Firdaus Ujang..

i've never meet him since he became a doctor at Serdang Hospital. It was fun meeting him yesterday.

The main topic of discussion yesterday.. was, "A doctor's life".

u can imagine when a young/junior doctor meets my brother, a medical student..

haha.. full of advice and motivating words..

A doctor's life.. houseman's to be precise.. is d toughest of all according to him.

among the housemen, they agreed to put their rank the lowest and smaalest, even smaller than a virus! he xplained that they are being scolded, shouted, & yelled at all costs, and at all circumstances, by their MO(medical Officer) and Specialists.

Even in front of patients, visitors, they're treated in the same manner by their superior.

Doctors hardly sleep and they themselves do not find time for food,

although they tell people to eat well.

in on-call duties, especially in ginaecology (is it d right spelling?), or sakit puan, he said, sometimes six mothers are delivering, and there're only 2 doctors.

can u imagine? he had to run here and there, and sometimes when he arrive at d ward, the baby's head is already out!

there're also occasions when mothers delivering outside d ward, at d waiting room, because they arrive late, or the ward is full..

then i said, "glad to be in the engineering discipline".

haha.. u noe, then Dr firdaus said that.. "yes, u shud be glad n thnkful. I had a friend, an engineer, now have worked for 2 years. salary: 5k. hols:every sat & sun. me? salary: not much as him. Hols: almost none!"

then he told us, sometimes a doctor did face toughest decisions in their life.

1) During an on-call duty (where doctor on duty is not allowed to go back home), he got a call from his late father, "Firdaus, come back home, all your siblings are home. we could go anywhere together. this is a rare oppurtunity. tomorrow they'll go back separate ways."

2) During an on-call duty, he receive a call from his sister, that his father's health is worsen, and that he is moved to the hospital. however he could not attend his own father, because he is on an on-call duty.

3) During diagnosing a patient in severe & accute condition, he got a call from his sister, that his father stopped breathing, and that other doctor are attending him. He just couldn't leave his patient his attending at that moment.

"tough"

is the one word i could define these situations.

When his father passed away, Dr firdaus managed to be by his father's side.

that alone don't count the occasions where he faces deaths in his hands, on patients that don't have hopes anymore (to fill in death-in-line form) and telling it to their families..

He also point out that in a research among doctors in Malaysia, 70% of them regretted to be doctors.. and so, he asked my brother the most important question,

"Why do you want to be a doctor?"

However, being a doctor did come with various other emotions. He said, you can't tell how happy, how delighted you are to make others happy.

Of course, Allah who make people healthy, but with the doctors effort, Allah grant them this nikmat, a nikmat where no words can describe, and that no man can give.

there are occations where mothers with one year old son came by the hospital to thank him in her deliver, and yet he don't remember her. too many mothers! hehe..

لاَ يُكَلِّفُ اللّهُ نَفْساً إِلاَّ وُسْعَهَا لَهَا مَا كَسَبَتْ وَعَلَيْهَا مَا اكْتَسَبَتْ

Allah tidak membebani seseorang melainkan sesuai dengan kesanggupannya. Ia mendapat pahala (dari kebajikan)yang diusahakannya dan ia mendapat siksa (dari kejahatan) yang dikerjakannya.

On no soul doth Allah Place a burden greater than it can bear. It gets every good that it earns, and it suffers every ill that it earns.

[Al-Baqarah, 2:286]

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آَمَنُوا هَلْ أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَى تِجَارَةٍ تُنجِيكُم مِّنْ عَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ . تُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَتُجَاهِدُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ بِأَمْوَالِكُمْ وَأَنفُسِكُمْ ذَلِكُمْ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

"Hai orang-orang yang beriman, sukakah kamu aku tunjukkan suatu perniagaan yang dapat menyelamatkanmu dariazab yang pedih? (yaitu) kamu beriman kepada Allah dan RasulNya dan berjihad di jalan Allah dengan harta dan jiwamu. Itulah yanglebih baik bagimu, jika kamu mengetahui."

[As-Saf, 61:10-11]