Hello Medicine : corrected version

[Guest guest]

Antoine writes:

>Less and less, we see an human being sitting

>near the person being sick, for the time of

>its sickness. We do not find the time, in

>general, to sit by, with, our sick. We forget

>them, more often than none, in an hospital

>room...

 

Sometimes I believe that the most therapeutic thing I do for some

of my hospitalized patients is to sit with them, talk with them, and

hold their hand (literally as well as figuratively). In doing so, it seems

to me that I help them to remember that they are a worthwhile person

deserving of happiness and peace (it gets especially tricky when the

patient comes from a fundamentalist religious backround where his

depressed mood plays into his beliefs of being a natural sinner at heart).

>Some ask you to be a god, we are all human,

>

>Time is what we need sings someone.

>

>It is here... whispers the wind...

 

And some expect me to be human, not realizing that I am really a god (but

one who unfortunately has forgotten how to consciously use all of his

godlike powers ;-)

 

 

.... "A miracle is what I need" sings another

 

"But can't you see that *you* are the miracle" speaks the rain (by tapping

out morse code on the window)

 

But he could not see, so deep was he in the illusion of pain, that by thinking

it so, he made the pain real....

 

 

-Have a wonderful Sunday, all-

 

Mike

[Guest guest]

Lost of typos... should be easier to read,

now ....

 

Hello Mike,

 

UnbrknCh8n wrote:

> I see my

> responsibility

> at such a time as doing what I can to

> ensure the safety of the patient (and

> medications are usually the fastest way to

> improve suicidality or relieve

> psychosis).

>

> Take care-

>

> Mike

 

The medication being the fastest way and

often _less expensive_ way to improve

suicidality sure does reflect a choice that

has been made by society in the long run.

Less and less, we see an human being sitting

near the person being sick, for the time of

its sickness. We do not find the time, in

general, to sit by, with, our sick. We forget

them, more often than none, in an hospital

room where people, instead, pass on the sound

off the clock, to take blood samples, feed

you, give a pill or wash you. But they have

no time to sit with you while you sleep...

 

In this "society", (society could the way we

relate to our body as well), I really do

admire your line of work, you are sitting at

the front line. And what you do given the

means the society gives you, what is it? one

doctor for how many people 100?, 1000? 10000?

100000?. When it should be 1 for one, at the

least.

 

Some ask you to be a god, we are all human,

 

Time is what we need sings someone.

 

It is here... whispers the wind...

 

Antoine