Couples who get married vow to stay together. “Til death do us part”. But have you heard that some couples have defied this vow? Let me tell you this story: There was a sixty-something man who was diagnosed with brain cancer. He and his wife were apart because he works abroad while his wife took care of their family. One day, he...
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I was talking to a group of patient’s relatives regarding his prognosis. It was very grim. In the group were the patient’s son, patient’s sister and the patient’s daughter holding her two year old son. The patient was dying and I was relaying that information to the family. Expectedly, the group was distraught but something...
read moreDo you have any idea how long we study to become doctors? Often, doctors are already in mid-life by the time they start practicing their profession. Guys are already going bald while women are nearing the end of their child-bearing years. After high school, we go to college for a four or five year course which preferably...
read moreI continued seeing patients while I pondered on my future. However, I felt like I was in limbo. I didn’t know whether I should continue or stop. I felt so uncertain of my future. I was bordering on being depressed and this translated to becoming impatient especially when talking to patients or relatives. I became so...
read moreDoctors are expected to uphold the sanctity of life and to do no harm on their patients. In my training in general medicine and internal medicine, our patients would usually come to us with a problem and we were expected to work our magic on them and eliminate the disease thereby making them well. In the course of our studying...
read moreWhen people find out that I am an oncologist (a doctor who manages cancer patients), I always get a baffled and scared look from them. Or sometimes I hear them say “Yikes!”. I also get questions like “Why?” or “Isn’t it difficult ” or “How can you deal with it?”. You probably wouldn’t believe it, but...
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