Around 9 years ago when I was a young doctor studying anesthesia, we had to do night shifts once a week inside a Trauma ICU. One night there was a new patient who crashed his motorcycle, he had tracheostomy, Ilizarov apparatus on all limbs and had a brain surgery to relief pressure due to bleeding. It was hard to take care of him because of all the things around him, but somehow he made a noise and he directed my attention to his right arm that was in a weird position. I just placed a pillow under his arm and left.
2 years later as I was walking in a corridor some random guy stopped me and asked: hey, do you remember me? I was in a hurry and obviously said no.
He smiled and said that he was the guy on ward number 1 with the tracheostomy and ilizarov. I was like “wow you are walking again” and he just replied as he walked away: “thanks for that day!”
Such a small thing was really important to that person and I didn’t even realized, that made me put more effort on those “small” things such as smiling and treating others with respect. There’s no money that can buy those kind of things. Even though I don’t remember his name, I will remember him forever.
Congratulations on your recovery!
Ps. Sorry for the bad English. It’s not my native language.
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Around 9 years ago when I was a young doctor studying anesthesia, we had to do night shifts once a week inside a Trauma ICU. One night there was a new patient who crashed his motorcycle, he had tracheostomy, Ilizarov apparatus on all limbs and had a brain surgery to relief pressure due to bleeding. It was hard to take care of him because of all the things around him, but somehow he made a noise and he directed my attention to his right arm that was in a weird position. I just placed a pillow under his arm and left.
2 years later as I was walking in a corridor some random guy stopped me and asked: hey, do you remember me? I was in a hurry and obviously said no.
He smiled and said that he was the guy on ward number 1 with the tracheostomy and ilizarov. I was like “wow you are walking again” and he just replied as he walked away: “thanks for that day!”
Such a small thing was really important to that person and I didn’t even realized, that made me put more effort on those “small” things such as smiling and treating others with respect. There’s no money that can buy those kind of things. Even though I don’t remember his name, I will remember him forever.
Congratulations on your recovery!
Ps. Sorry for the bad English. It’s not my native language.
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