Just finished her clinical class, she walked alone along the walk path. She saw the damn terrible traffic that keep honking all the time. She saw the people keep spitting around through the bus window. She saw all the damn rubbish everywhere. She saw the dogs walking around without disturbing others. She saw people eating while standing in the restaurant. And she saw few women holding their babies in their arm asking for money from the cars that stopped because of the red light. And she still walking. Walking and walking. Ignorance and filtering the surrounding out of her mind.
She was walking but her minds? Yes, not in the place. Her minds was in the hospital. The place where she dreams so hard to work at.The place where she can help people. The place of her dream.
“Yes mam, how can i help you?”
“She got atrial fibrillation.Someone page Dr. Burke!”
“He is not breathing.Code blue people!”
“Take this medicine twice daily and come back if the fever still not down.”
Yes.That is her life.Not yet a doctor but her dream is bigger than the reality. With her mind busying picturing her future life being a doctor, suddenly she saw a man. She saw a man lying. In the middle of the walk path. And no one is helping him. “Maybe they don’t know what to do. Maybe they didn’t notice him,” she keep telling herself while walking faster towards the lying man. “How can they don’t have feeling to just see and let him lying like this without helping him.They should at least call for ambulance and not just walking away like this.Like he is not exist!”said her loudly in her heart angrily.
Two more steps for her to reach the lying man. She walked confidently with the passion to help. In her minds keep picturing how to do CPR. Or maybe she should do mouth to mouth breathing. Or maybe he was choking and she need to poke his back.
And finally she arrived.She sat near him. And she put her hand to his neck to feel for her carotid artery. She also grabbed his hand to check his pulse. “He is alive!!,” she shouted.
But suddenly, the old man woke up and shouted to her back in his own language she barely understand.
“Hey!! What are you doing?Go away!!I’m tired and i need to sleep!” (Translation of Kannada language)
Continue being ignorance, she just continue walking and walking without turning back. But now, her steps was faster than before.
~THE END~
Moral of the story: Here people just sleeping in the road.Bear in your mind that, doctor!
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