Busy Hospital Days and Nights
By Alice
Lane 
Many of us, after a long days work, simply want to relax and put
up our feet. Our days at work can be stressful and full of tiring
hours. There is nothing like coming home at the end of a busy day
and just doing nothing. The hours we put in at work seem to go on
endlessly; for when we come home, it is difficult to not think about
work. We come home and think about what needs to get done the next
day, or about what we did get done, but need to go back and fix.
For a lot of us this solely involves doing, or re-doing in some cases,
paperwork or a meeting that we have to attend.
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Doctors, however, have an entirely different burden. Imagine, if
you will, treating a young ten-year-old girl for cancer or caring
for someone's elderly grandfather. Doctors, on a daily basis, deal
with the living and dying of their patients. To be a doctor means
that you are thinking about your patients for what must feel like
twenty-four hours a day. Each doctor walks around in their landau
medical scrubs and tries to find the best remedy possible for his
patients. Their number one concern is the well-being of each and
every individual that they treat.
If a particular medical doctor is a surgeon, they are most likely
contemplating their next surgery. They are most likely reading through
their patients' medical charts to make sure that everything is looking
great before the time for surgery is at hand. An OB-GYN on the other
hand, is most likely wearing his cheap medical scrubs and monitoring
his patient at hourly intervals to make sure the delivery is progressing
normally. There are many things that can weigh heavily on a doctor's
mind around the clock.
With another human being's life in their hands, doctors have one
of the most stressful jobs around. They are continuously looking
out for us; even if it means when they have the day off. Just like
the rest of us, they are probably finding themselves looking to the
next day they are back at work at what lies ahead of them. Their
minds are constantly racing back to the office, just as ours are.
So the next time that you see a doctor without the cherokee workwear
scrubs that he normally wears for his day job, just remember that
he is probably thinking about the next step he will be taking to
treat a patient. Or maybe he will be thinking about a particularly
special life that he happened to save that day. Doctor's may carry
the burden of saving the lives of complete strangers, but they also
have the satisfaction and reward they get from doing their very best
to make someone else's life even better and longer.
