“We are the one chosen to explore the microscopic world. We look beyond what the naked eye could see in the world of reality. We inject pain but we extract the truth.”
- Medical Technologists -
As far as I’m concerned, I believe that we (the Medical Practitioners) have the most dangerous job existing in the planet of humanity. You might think that I’m only exaggerating things owing to the fact that everybody believes that the most dangerous thing to do is to go to the battlefield like those soldiers; but no one has ever told about the war inside the edifice of a hospital. The war between life and death. The war in every edge of every breath held by the palms of those Medical Practitioners where every second counts.
I say, it is the most dangerous job NOT ONLY for the fact that we risk our own health because we communicate very closely to anyone even to those people who have the most deadly complications, and thus, we risk our own lives even worse that those soldiers in the battlefield who could just die with just a wink of an eye. But to risk your health is like a death of a slowly decaying body while you breathe every stinging feeling of poignant plague of disease.
Aside from risking our own health and our own lives, our job itself is at risk because at any moment of mistake done, our license, that piece of paper that holds our integrity for the said job, that piece of paper that we had strived for to have… we studied hard… hard enough as anyone could hear upon our lips just to earn our degree and pass the National Board Exams, that piece of paper that proves the battle that we have survived thru could be revoked from us. It is our responsibility to be perfect because in our work… “There’s no room for mistake”.
And above all these, the most dangerous part of our job is when other people’s lives are the ones at risk in our own hands. If it would only be our lives “alone” it would be much better. But to risk even the lives of those people you don’t even know, those people you barely know at all, those strangers and those innocent children… it is far more dangerous than risking your own life, I tell you.
The lives we save are NOT just their lives but also our own lives. We don’t just save lives but we spare souls too by giving then another chance to live and make up for the things they took for granted before. We are God’s soldiers for the inevitable fragility of life.
My work is NOT JUST my profession…
IT IS my SALVATION.