Orphaned patients

Amongst the worst sights that one can go through, is seeing a patient all alone with no visitors during visiting hours. No one to put the food in his mouth. No one to check if his forehead is a little hot and a post-op fever might be coming. No one to sit next to him and do the small-talk. I saw one yesterday.

He was in the ward directly opposite Abu's. The guy had recently come from Bangladesh. He was young. In his 20's. He had complained of back pain for a long time but had been treated with painkillers earlier. Apparently, only recently he showed a specialist who diagnosed severe back problems (pardon the un-medical language) and had a 9-hour operation done the day before. He had a mask for breathing and just slept all day. There were people that he worked and probably lived with who came to see him for a while and told us that he had no one here. Everyone deserves people to be with them. We need to have a system where firstly, anyone who is needed to attend to a patient should be able to afford the expenses to come to him, and secondly, information be sent to loved ones of a patient as soon as possible. I wonder if those who cared for this guy even knew what was up with him.

'd also like to talk about surgeons here. The most respectable of people ever. (Airline Pilots come second). The first thought in your head when you see one, especially after the effect his work has had on patients, is (apart from love and respect for his work) the desire to do something worthwhile with your life.