"You can't treat everything, there will be things that will confuse you, some disease that will be mis-diagnosed, some patients that cannot be saved. "
So said Dr. Raj, my professor for Clinical Neuroanatomy. To know that you will have patients who will come to you for a problem/ailment, and knowing that there will be probably nothing you can do to treat the disease--just the symptoms.
We were given lists of clinical diseases related to vitamin deficiency as well as neurological-related diseases.
We were given a break after an hour of lecture, and I spent my 20 minute break talking with some mates on the matter. "How would we react to that predicament?"
I listened to their responses; some were honorrific, some were pessimistic, some were just down right crude.
But to tell you the truth--I really wouldn't know. I don't know how I would feel regarding a patient that was in 'End-Stage', or a patient who was terminal and not knowing he was terminal.
And I've been thinking about this for some time today after class. I read the readings for the day, but that declaratory statement Dr. Raj provided us kept on ticking me.
Finally I took a break and ran into this verse in Scripture:
"Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity."
Hebrews 5:2I would do all in my power, medically speaking, to treat that patient. And keep him comfortable in his end-stage. It's hard sometimes keeping a distance from patients, retaining your distance and emotional concern. We must lean not on our understandings alone, but on the grace of The LORD and on his righteous arm.
That I am confident of.
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