The Doctor's Chair

  Finally, I've got some time-off just for myself. With a cup of warm coffee and a peaceful atmosphere to add, I'm busy hammering away at my keyboard once again. Well, just so you all know my dear readers, at this point of time, I am in a General Practitioner Posting, and hence I chose my hometown as my elective venue. (To mii, it's a holiday though, shhhhhh~~~)

  Anyway, to the point now, I was attached to this clinic, one that is well-known throughout Alor Star for the past, like 30+ years or so? With no names mentioned, I then started my attachment in aim to bolster my knowledge, well, a least that's what I hoped for.

 The doctor, (now that he's my GP teacher) was a great one. He teaches with so much care and dedication, not to forget the injection of a few medical jokes during normal conversations. His skills were incomparable to any doctor I've met so far, and his experience in the medical world was invaluable. Imagine almost 50 years in medical practice, 50 years! He was fluent in English as well, hence language wasn't a barrier to mii, communication was easy, except a blip or two when he started to converse in mandarin ('My mandarin is terrible' he would tell mii. Shouldn't I be saying the same as well?). So, there we were attending patients to their needs, with myself mostly the observer by his side. And like any other normal businesses, the clinic was quite at times. And these were the times, where the doctor's chair made mii indulge into a sea of thoughts, a world of my own...

  Here's why~~ At the clinic, I was usually standing. From morning to noon; from evening to night, I stood rooted, listening to every patient's complaint, the doctor's guidance and advice as well. And when it comes the time where everything seems to have quieten down, the doctor would raise from his chair to take a walk around the lovely garden just outside his clinic. Right before that, he would turn to mii and say, 'The clinic's quiet  now, you should take a rest. Here's my chair, sit and take a rest'. And he said the same exact words everyday at that same exact time when patients find the clinic a bore.

  I stared at the chair. The same chair that doctor used to sit in 30 years ago up till now in this very clinic; the same chair I used to see it as a child whenever I visited his clinic for a certain sickness; the same chair that stood as time passed by, it's frames the proud conquerer of the unforgiving time. I rejected, politely. I would rather stand on, or have a sit on the patient's chair than to meddle with the history of that chair.

 To mii, this doctor was one of the most respectable ones I'll put my hat down and crawl on my knees for. His reputation remains a legacy, one that could give an injection in a just a few seconds without the patient feeling any pain whatsoever. His skill-work is admirable and he is so down to earth. He doesn't even charge consultation fees, and he goes easy on medication prices for his patients. His care and love for his patients is more any one could ever ask for, none of that you could find in the attitude of young doctors nowadays.

  Hence, for mii to sit in THAT chair, would require mii to at least work harder to earn my stripes, to deem myself useful to the medical world. I would have felt guilty if I were to sit on it, and with my current level, I am no where near him. Still, that chair has given mii inspiration, given mii hope that some day, I may return to him, and accept his offer of that chair. For now, that doctor's chair, in which I shall refer to, shall be a test of my competency, a test of my mentality to keep up on this route. For shall I be one day just like him, remains a grasp of faith in my very hands of today. Till then, the doctor's chair, a legacy to be continued....

Signing off:

Nickel Low CJ