Hay naku...
Mabuti pa ang nurse napagkakamalang doctor. Samantalang ang mga doctor, napagkakamalang nurse!I was all tired and exhausted from moving from the female ward to the male ward while enduring the heat, inserting IV lines, doing my history, giving out prescription, monitoring Hgt... then there was a patient was persistently calling, "nurse! nurse!"... In reply, "Nay, hindi po ako nurse! Doon po sa nurse station ang nurse, ung may carton sa ulo... doctor po ako.".... "ay, akala ko.... sorry po doctora, ang bata nyo kasi para maging doctor e."
I don't want to be a nurse... no offense. I want to be better. No matter what. Without doctors, there would be no nurses... But clerkship teaches me to put oneself down. It lets me experience being degraded, from monitoring Q1, Q2, ambugging, IV push, monitoring urine output. These are not the job of a doctor, yet of a nurse and a nursing aide.
Although, you have the urge to help the person in distress and anxiety, you cannot perfectly attend to all of them. Doctors are still humans with emotions. We get tired. We get hungry. We need sleep. It's true that in clerkship, you will experience all the dirty work. It makes me realize that doctors really deserve the regard and respect they need. The path to being a doctor is not easy.