Feeling sorry, bad and sad 21April2015 “

Feeling sorry, bad and sad  21April2015

“Are you a doctor?”  Dr. A  

"Nop! I am just an ordinary housewife."

Nobody with me was stupid enough not to notice the tone of her displeasure being called again on the 16^th April.  Actually, she went further to remind us that she did not want to be called again. 

Would there be another time seeing the condition of D?  Why did she fuss like that?   I just can’t understand.

We were not there to question her though I was at first in doubt about her explanation about a thing when my Amu told me that D seemed to react a bit when she called him. 

But Dr A said it was the natural response /instinct of a person.

I wonder if this is the manner of the doctor to greet the patient’s family to call the doctor again without any consultation fee.   On the 14April, the ICU called D’s wife/S to come on 15April to be told of the condition of my brother-in-law/D. 

I did not go that day.  But I google searched about brain scanning that afternoon.  Hence I requested for the brain scanning on S’s behalf which they were supposed to do on the day when D had the cardiac arrest on the 4^thApril. 

It was the same day, the doctor suggested to punch a hole somewhere right below the chin.  Actually, D had the pipe connected to a lung via the nose.  That afternoon my husband went to see him and he was still wide awake and even smiled a bit. 

But, nobody knows except the medical staff involved in the operation knew what mishap occurred.  That afternoon at about 5pm, S informed my husband about the cardiac arrest and D was only revived 15 minutes later. 

Since 4^th April, he was in the coma state until he 17^thApril, he had another cardiac arrest and passed away that very night.   When everybody accepted his death as it is but I made a lot of wild guesses that he was killed unintentionally by unskillful hand punching of the hole.   I felt really sorry, bad and sad. 

I went with my husband the second time on 16^thApril since I visited him on the 7^thApril .   When I saw D, you do not have to be a doctor to know what is what.

Before I went to the hospital, of course, I jotted down a few brain scanning devices which I wanted to know if they had to examine the brain.  They had Electro-encephalography but they did not use the device on D.  When I asked Why, she said Dr. So and So did not indicate. Then she told me the doctors were clever enough knowing what to prescribe. 

Then I asked what device they would do on D.   It was CAT/CT scan .  In the conversation, she disclosed that this device often broke down due to overwork.  When I asked why did not she request the hospital to get the new one.

Instead, she argued that we people should approach some rich kind men for donation saying that Sibu was a rich place.   Not knowing that it was an absolutely wrong mentality of the head of the ICU to expect the rich kind people to donate the devices after paying hefty taxes, she told us her piece of mind.

It was understood why they did not have Magneto-encephalography and Near Infrared Spectroscopy to examine the blood oxygenation.  Instead of requesting the public funds for purchasing the required devices, they were waiting for the wealthy kind people to come out with the things. Imagine!

At one stage in the conversation, she even asked if we wanted to transfer D to the private hospital.  Alamak!  I wondered where she had left her work ethic to say like that.  I had no choice but rebutted, “ In such a condition, is it possible for us to do anything?”. 

To end the conversation, I only asked when they would give D the CT-scanning, that’s it. 

We must admit that going to the hospital for the case which required an immediate attention was the worst/gravest mistake D and S made being so ignorant. 

No one who came to know about the consequences has not felt with regret that the case could have had different outcome if it had been treated in the private medical centre.  They have been successful cases of the people who suffered back pain because of the pinched nerve. And due to immediate attention and operation, these people have fully recovered and are still "kicking and living".