...Bismillahirrahmanirrahim...
Alhamdulillah, with His blessings, I have the chance to served part on the community in East Malaysia Hospital. I did my elective posting in my hometown, which was in Hospital Serdang. Just to share with you guys some of the remarkable experiences, I had gone through out the posting. It was a fun, knowledgable, 4 weeks posting, especially because it's near my house and beloved family! It's also my first experienced ever since entered the medical school to be near my lovely family. One of the cases that I had come across is Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, to be more specific, it is a case of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, diffuse large B cell lymphoma. During the ward rounds with CUCMS students in the medical ward, Prof Latiff, the Internal Medicine lecturer of the school,whom I've also heard of his talk in IKIM.fm health talk slot once, said
that the patient had marked positive sign and symptoms which trigger my
curiosity in clerking him. After the rounds, my friend and I clerked him, performed incomplete physical examination. Indeed he has features of cancer such as loss of weight,
loss of appetite, diffuse lymph nodes, with underlying peptic ulcer, bilateral
pedal edema, matted abdominal lymph nodes and others.
Say: "Truly, my Lord enlarges the provision for whom He wills of His slaves, and (also) restricts (it) for him, and whatsoever you spend of anything (in Allah's Cause), He will replace it. And He is the Best of providers." (al- Quran, Surah Saba, Verse 39)
Suddenly he requested for
drinks from us as a treat. He said that he was bored of drinking luke water. The
first thing that crosses my mind is that: ''OK, patients here are quite
demanding! '' Hence, after we clerked him, me and my friend Zafirah, go down to
the cafeteria and bought some drinks for him. By the time we climb to the ward
back, we saw his wife was already there since it was visiting hour (at noon).
We happily had our lunch then. The following day as we follow the ward rounds
again, I didn’t saw the patient. I was curious to follow up the case since
thinking that it could be a good case for my case write up! So I went to walk to the
readily unlock computer to read the case files. I was shocked to read headings
stated above the personal data: DECEASED! People come and people go. When there
is birth there is also death! Hence it make me realized that, patients are our teachers, and we do not have the power to cure, because all that is in God’s hand.
May Allah bless him. Ameen.
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