Responding to this line, there’s something that I would like to propose to all of my soon-to-be-doctor acquaintances. My mom is having first stage colon cancer and recently found a lump in her breast and to add spice to it small kidney stones exhibit its presence too. I was by her side every time she went for polyps removal surgery at SJMC and the aftermath was excruciating enough for her which contorted her ability to even utter a single word.

The salient point that I would like to remark is not her agonies but the obligations that lies on the doctors’ shoulders. She recurrently commented that doctors should use their layers of emotion sagely and need to have high social skills while dealing with their patients so that they are at the very least solaced while enabling anxiety to be capped. Why would I say this? It’s because I’ve heard too many individuals enouncing that doctors don’t need to be friendly and just simply need to be plain systematically ascetic in decision makings yet shouldn’t let emotions find their way in. A downright fallacy of the vox populi I would say. You are dealing with humans not machines. Every time we were waiting for the lab results, our hearts were kettledrums. If it’s not for the tactfulness of the doctors who possess empathy towards those people whose lives are numbered, cancer patients can die of heart attacks earlier than their avowed due date. Therefore, be friendly. Your job is not all about handing out prescriptions and announcing critical patients’ date of demise, its more than that.

Verily, true to what Aiman has wrote, it is a certitude about the time our soul will be demanded back by the rightful owner which is unfeignedly obscure, so live life to its fullest! ^_^