Tears from a mother

There was one Chinese girl presented with jaundice for 2 months. She had episodes of seizure and psychosis recently.. the 13 years old chinese gal very kelian, the whole family n relatives were there when we came to the bed, and she looked dizzy and talking to herself. The parents were so worried after went thru hospital Columbia and Gleneagles without any improvement, she was first thought of having hepatitis.

Many investigations were done on her b4, finally she was diagnosed with SLE and referred to UMMC. i believe she must have suffered a lot all this while. With the specialists available here i hope she could recover fast.

"Dr, please give her the best treatment available, I just want her to be cured, no matter how much the cost will be.."

First sentence that came from the mother, with watery eyes looking at all the doctors surrounding the bed. Suddenly i felt very touched, the love from parents, the tiredness and anxious-looking on their face, after going thru all of these.. if i'm the one lying on bed, i believe my parents and family will say the same words, spending all their time, energy and effort just for me.

It is so fortunate that we have family and friends with us, the loves and courage are sometimes just what the patient hope for, and they might even better than any medicine!

ALTHOUGH you will see smiley and relieved faces on patients in hospital who finally treated correctly, you will never know how much disappointment and anxiety they have gone thru before arriving at the safe platform.

What we see in tertiary hospital is just the tip of the iceberg. When the disease is recognized and diagnosed correctly, most of the time the patient is able to progress well and recovered. However, there are so many cases outside in the society that remained undiagnosed. People are suffering everyday simply d2 poor health care services. Misdiagnosed and undiagnosed cases are everywhere…

Who to blame?

People who continue suffer will blame the attending doctors, which usually the first line general practitioner in clinics, and finally lost faith on health care services.

I used to listen to complaints from patients in Klang general hospital regarding the poor quality of service, and this dissatisfaction occurred on so many patients.

“Private is better than GH..” this is what has created among Malaysia ppl's mind, and something to think of, if there is still hope in our public health services.