Dr Malik has been recuperating from an illness that gave him a near death experience. It has been one long month in hospital and he remains in isolation but he is grateful that he is alive irrespective of the short comings in the level of care he was initially getting. Things are somewhat improved at
There was a pervasive atmosphere of fear in the neighborhood; that feeling of ‘who knows whose turn it is to die’? There has been a strange illness resulting in deaths that rather appear difficult to accept. A couple of people in the same household have been involved in some instances. What is frightening is the
There are happenings that get difficult to erase from the memory no matter how hard one tries. Some of these relate to events that concern human suffering. Over twenty five years ago, a middle aged man was brought into the Emergency Unit of the hospital where I worked. The family members were unaware of the
The Children’s Emergency Room (CHER) was a house of commotion in my training days in the Medical School in the early 1980s. Measles was in town and was reigning practically unchallenged. Babies at different disease stages of measles were in attendance. George Orwell told us that all animals are equal but some are more
What could have stolen the peace of this neighborhood? Everybody gathered with sullen faces and discussed in low tones. What was the problem? Mr Sadaki was picked up lifeless from his bathroom floor. He had gone to work the previous day, came back around 4pm and shared a meal with some members of his family.
This response is important for our ability to learn from mistakes, but it alsogives self-criticism, because it is part of the threat-protection system. In other words. One touch of a red-hot stove is usually all we need to avoid that kind of discomfort in future. The same is true as we experience the emotional sensation
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