A lot has been said about the difficulties in the lives of doctors, incredibly long duration of study period, less pay scale, long and tedious work schedule, lot stress of work life, struggle to maintain work-life balance, especially in recent years, ingratitude and abuse by patients' family etc . An incident when I was on call yesterday inspired me to share this. I am a senior pediatrician. I saw a 2 year old female patient, with pneumonia. Her mother seemed familiar to me. When I recognized her mother, I asked her mother that whether we met before? And she replied that I treated her son, Nasser, 7 years ago.
He was admitted, 2 months of age, ex-preterm, very sick and having chest infection. And they stayed for a long time in our hospital . We took good care of her son with lots of efforts in taking care of him. Now he is very well. She thanked me. That time, one healthy, active boy…
