Every
year millions of people see doctors for various reasons. These working-class
heroes put their own lives at risk every day to save those of the citizens who
are plagued by unexpected injuries and illnesses. A doctor survives by
providing help to others, having strength, and keeping their composure through
the hard times they may encounter.
One way a doctor shows his
dedication to saving lives is by helping others. During Tim Delgado’s private time with his wife
Alison Bedingfield, Bedingfield suffered from an aneurysm while lying in
bed. Acknowledging that his wife was
having an aneurysm in his article, “Saving a life: A doctor’s duty” Delgado
took action. With Bedingfield struggling
to breath and gurgling in pain, Delgado being a Med. Student knew he had to do
a tracheotomy. Delgado told himself, “I have to do this.” Without Delgado
performing the tracheotomy Bedingfield would have died. When Delgado is at work his worst fear is
having a family member come in injured and not be able to help them. According to Delgado in his article he felt
like he had been “stabbed in the gut” after realizing his patient was his wife.
With composure being a key part of a doctor’s job, Delgado loses his, which
could mean life or death for his wife.
With his wife’s life at stake Delgado’s instinct kicks in and he begins
to give order for medicine to be administered. This ultimately was the wrong
amount, but was corrected by nurses silently!
As a doctor’s key role being to help others when in need and keeping
their composer at the same time, Delgado illustrates in his article, “When it
comes to family, composure is the last thing on a doctor’s mind.”
In order for a doctor to perform
his duties to the patient’s best interest he/she must have strength. In
Delgado’s article, he shows that with help a person can “achieve small but
significant milestones!’ With his wife needing love and a care taker, Delgado
left work for three months in order to care for her. While his wife was in the
brain clinic she was able to improve her mental abilities by teaching herself
new shapes and objects on an iPad. In “Saving a life: A doctor’s duty”, Delgado
says, “over the course of two weeks she re-learned motor skills and regained
hand-eye coordination enough to go home.”
In order to get Bedingfield back to her normal life, Delgado worked
every day for two hours exercising to build her back up. Determination played a
key part in Bedingfield’s recovery process. As Delgado stated in his article
after she was standing on her own again,”You don’t need me anymore.” This took
great determination to get to this point.
Without a doctor having the strength and determination to help his
patient get well, then the will to keep going isn’t as high!
In order to save their patients,
doctors will go to some extreme measuring by providing care to the wounded by
performing surgeries if need be. In Tony Adame’s article,”Surgeon saves lives
in dangerous places” Eric Nott was shot while on duty in War and says,” A
couple of millimeters one way and I don’t get hit at all… a couple of
millimeters the other way and its pretty bad.”
With surgeons in the military, a surgeon could be at war one minute and
helping earthquake victims the next.
According to Nott, “I told them I was getting ready to go into surgery,
but I would leave as soon as it was over.
A couple of hours later, I was on my way to Haiti.’ That is a great
example of how doctors will never know when or where they will be providing
care for the wounded. “An orthopedic surgeon saved my life. When my local
doctor identified a tumor of the pelvis, he said I need an orthopedic
oncologist”, said Kermit Tucker.
Providing a life line to their patients is a major part of a doctor’s
job! After meeting Dr. Nicholas, Tucker
says,” His knowledge kindness and confidence convinced me on the spot that he
was the doctor for me. And I am glad.”
Dr. Nicholas is a good example of how important it is to doctors to
provide care for the sick and go to extreme measure to save someone’s life.
Without doctors helping others,
having strength, and performing surgery when surgery is the only way to save
someone’s life, many people would not have lived as long as they have now. What would you do as a patient if a doctor
did not have the will or strength to help others or perform surgery if it meant
saving your life!
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