Thursday, March 25, 2010

Do You Have What It Takes ?

I dislike hospital. I find hospital to be depressing. Don't get me wrong, I do make (quite frequent, I may say) visits to the hospital. Heck, even the radiographer recognizes me!

And what with 4 kids in tow, you'll have the hospital's number in speed dial. And its the one location in which you won't need to save in Garmin - yup, it should already mapped in the little gray cells.

This brings me to an interesting piece of news I read recently. You know how it is, every time major exam results are announced in Malaysia. You'll see the MSM splashed with the students celebrating their string of As. What I failed to notice was number of students with straight As.

I came as a shock to me - to learn that there were actually almost 8000 students with straight As. I am dumb-struck (err..hopefully not plain, dumb!). Imagine, out of the 30,000 odd students who took the exam, 8000 got all As in all the subject that they took. That's like 27%, man!

And to top it of, almost 300 students got straight A+ !!!!!

Wow...these kids are either geniuses, or  else there is something really, really, wrong, somewhere.  No tweaking here and there - to prove some theory or to show da new boss is da better boss - I hope!

We'll just leave it to that - bersangka baik - we'll just accept that these students are in fact sheer geniuses and in couple of years we'll have these shining stars all over Malaysia - and maybe, just maybe we'll finally see a few of them acknowledged in the scientific world - receiving Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physics, etc. 

One thing that I noticed is that most of these straight As students aspire to be doctors. I guess the lure of the medical field is to hard to resist. Probably its the physicians, surgeons, specialist that they come across in private hospitals who seems to be having a glamorous and financially (more than) stable lifestyle.


These over-achievers strives to be be doctors...though a lot of them are not aware the sacrifices that is required of them. The rigorous studying, the hard internship and not to mention the odd hours. Our pediatrician once lamented to us, that if he can, he'll advise his daughter not to be one. Yeah, imagine being a pediatrician, responsible for the lives of little ones - means that he always has to be on call. Yeah, the pay is undeniably good - but the sacrifices are also huge. 


And you gotta have passion for it - for you always have to be gentle and patient to your patients. And most of all, you gotta have guts! Imagine being surrounded by sick people, looking at blood on accident victims - like its the most normal thing. To attend to twisted pelvic or skull cracked open, without panic attack!

Let us salute all the doctors, surgeon, nurses, the assistants - they definitely deserve it!





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