For me the most difficult thing in life is waiting. Degree of difficulty rises in linear proportion to the element of uncertainty and fear. Our patients wait for hours together for registration, cash deposit, consult, blood samples, ECG, Imaging services, lab reports, final consult, medicine shop and clearance every day which goes unnoticed most of the time. Usually, anybody coming looking for a doctor is indisposed and in mental agony.
Moreover, for nonmedical people who have no knowledge of human physiology, every symptom appears serious and threatening compared to all other sick people hovering in and out of any hospital.Some patients do have attendants but many come alone. Aloneness and old age with poor mental faculties create more difficulty. Perhaps, I can not stand in a queue even if suffering from Flue like symptoms. Small children who are unwell and clinging to their mothers,…
