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I emailed both Dr Tan and Dr Ong two days ago to inform them of my appeal results.
I just checked my email, and sitting there in my Inbox were their replies. I thought it's rather coincidental that both of them would reply me on the same night... But anyway, I am deeply touched by their replies. Dr Tan typed a surprisingly long reply. And both of them ended off by telling me that I can always contact them if I happen to need their help in the future. I feel extremely blessed to have met and worked with these 2 doctors. Doctors with such big hearts that they show such genuine concern for even people like me who have worked with them for only a couple of weeks.
It's with doctors like these that I can safely say our patients are in good hands. It's with people like these that makes me optimistic about Mankind. That there are still kind and selfless people around in this world. It makes me want to be a better person.
(By the way, Jiawan just told me that Dr Tan actually wanted to stay in Cambodia so he could serve the community over there!) Wow, I really didn't pick the wrong idol haha! (:
Looking back, my whole hospital attachment period at AH was.. amazing. (Not that the SGH one wasn't good, but it was difficult for me to feel attached to the place when I only spent a week there and that the doctors I met were constantly changing.) I learnt so much about the medical profession during the 3 weeks that I was at AH. I got to enter operating theatres, sit in clinics and observe procedures and doctor-patient interaction that I would never get the chance to as a non-doctor. I met doctors who are not only wonderful people, but who also (unknowingly) taught me a lot through their actions. I'm glad for the correspondence with Dr Tan and Dr Ong, and I'm glad that I'm still keeping in contact with 3 of the housemen that I've befriended. (:
Hmm, come to think of it, I think I must really have been proactive and enthusiastic, therefore leaving the doctors a deep and good impression! If not they wouldn't even bother about me, right? Wahahaha!
Ok, that was nonsense.
Well, even though I can't be a doctor now, I am still pretty darn glad that I went for the attachments! I'd remember the experience for life man! Anyway, how many non-doctors or non-nurses can say that they've actually watched an operation in the OT? =p
Indeed, a beautiful letdown. (':
Perhaps, I may do a postgraduate medical degree. Perhaps I may decide to try for medicine again when I'm 30+ or 40. Or perhaps the attachments would be the closest I've ever gotten to becoming a doctor. Who knows?
But for now, there are greater things planned for me! The finance sector, here I come!
I just checked my email, and sitting there in my Inbox were their replies. I thought it's rather coincidental that both of them would reply me on the same night... But anyway, I am deeply touched by their replies. Dr Tan typed a surprisingly long reply. And both of them ended off by telling me that I can always contact them if I happen to need their help in the future. I feel extremely blessed to have met and worked with these 2 doctors. Doctors with such big hearts that they show such genuine concern for even people like me who have worked with them for only a couple of weeks.
It's with doctors like these that I can safely say our patients are in good hands. It's with people like these that makes me optimistic about Mankind. That there are still kind and selfless people around in this world. It makes me want to be a better person.
(By the way, Jiawan just told me that Dr Tan actually wanted to stay in Cambodia so he could serve the community over there!) Wow, I really didn't pick the wrong idol haha! (:
Looking back, my whole hospital attachment period at AH was.. amazing. (Not that the SGH one wasn't good, but it was difficult for me to feel attached to the place when I only spent a week there and that the doctors I met were constantly changing.) I learnt so much about the medical profession during the 3 weeks that I was at AH. I got to enter operating theatres, sit in clinics and observe procedures and doctor-patient interaction that I would never get the chance to as a non-doctor. I met doctors who are not only wonderful people, but who also (unknowingly) taught me a lot through their actions. I'm glad for the correspondence with Dr Tan and Dr Ong, and I'm glad that I'm still keeping in contact with 3 of the housemen that I've befriended. (:
Hmm, come to think of it, I think I must really have been proactive and enthusiastic, therefore leaving the doctors a deep and good impression! If not they wouldn't even bother about me, right? Wahahaha!
Ok, that was nonsense.
Well, even though I can't be a doctor now, I am still pretty darn glad that I went for the attachments! I'd remember the experience for life man! Anyway, how many non-doctors or non-nurses can say that they've actually watched an operation in the OT? =p
Indeed, a beautiful letdown. (':
Perhaps, I may do a postgraduate medical degree. Perhaps I may decide to try for medicine again when I'm 30+ or 40. Or perhaps the attachments would be the closest I've ever gotten to becoming a doctor. Who knows?
But for now, there are greater things planned for me! The finance sector, here I come!