The doctor smiled and said, “I am sorry, I wasn’t in the hospital and I came the fastest I could after receiving the call…… And now, I wish you’d calm down so that I can do my work.”
“Calm down?! What if your son was in this room right now, would you calm down? If your own son dies now what will you do??” said the father angrily
The doctor smiled again and replied: “I will say what Job said in the Holy Book “From dust we came and to dust we return, blessed be the name of God”. Doctors cannot prolong lives. Go and intercede for your son, we will do our best by God’s grace.”
“Giving advice when we’re not concerned is so easy,” murmured the father.
The surgery took some hours after which the doctor went out happy.
“Thank goodness! Your son is saved!” And without waiting for the father’s reply he carried on his way running. “If you have any question, ask the nurse!!”
“Why is he so arrogant? He couldn’t wait some minutes so that I ask about my son’s state” commented the father when seeing the nurse minutes after the doctor left.
The nurse answered, tears coming down her face: “His son died yesterday in a road accident, he was in the burial when we called him for your son’s surgery. And now that he saved your son’s life, he left running to finish his son’s burial.”
NEVER JUDGE ANYONE BECAUSE You never know how their life is or as to what is happening or what they’re going through. Just think ABOUT this moment.
-Author Unknown-
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walla Both the parent and the doctor acted their respective ways in keeping with their respective concerns; the parent for his child, the doctor for his patient. However in this story, the doctor had to overcome one additional hurdle, his own tragedy. For him, it was a test of life in a way higher than the test of life faced by the parent. Higher because he had to subsume his own grief to prevent another for someone else who only thought of berating him without knowing the real circumstance.
Such is the gravelly grittiness of life. We each face our own tests of life. From the counter clerk to the chief executive officer. From the road sweeper to the plane pilot. No one escapes the dance of fate, the tragic pathos of an event whose time has come.
This blog pulls heart-strings.