Tag: lifelessons

As a doctor, you always dream of handling an emergency in the swiftest way, saving the day and becoming a hero. Yet when you face it, you wish your suspicion and diagnosis be wrong, and everyone just makes it out alive! That is the only thought that ran across my mind that moment.

It is important to know that stress is a part of human existence. But it is all the more necessary to understand that it is a double edged sword. As per the Stress model of Hans Selye, it is an optimum amount of stress that will drive you to your goal but an extra amount of stress shall incapacitate you. And what we notice now-a-days is extra of everything. 

When every morning, one is met with headlines of staggering statistics attached with a heart wrenching photo of a patient with oxygen mask, one wonders what has it come to… when did this happen. Certainly, the times are tougher but patients have always been there… they have always been at the receiving end emotionally, physically and financially.
They have always been… the usual victims!!

What is the most encouraging thing you ever heard for yourself? A simple subtle question yet thought provoking and a human mind generally avoids taking this thought provoking stroll about life. The answers to such questions do not lie in the large ocean of occurrences your life is, but in the little grains of sand that rest on the shore… to be occasionally touched by the ocean.