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- The professor did not simply view patients as diseases but showed the true form of a doctor who gifts spring to patients who have faced the winter of their lives.
- It was touching to see how the professor opened their heart and instilled hope through conversation with patients, and I felt their warm heart that understood and empathized with their patients' pain.
- Through the professor, I realized that I should strive to become the spring that can give spring to patients, and I felt a sense of responsibility as a true medical professional in forming relationships with patients in the future.
You have to give patients the vitality of spring. You have to give patients the vitality of spring.
After observing the first consultation of the professor's first patient in the afternoon, I honestly felt very awkward at the time. I had never seen this kind of consultation before, so it was very unfamiliar and strange to me.
It wasn't until the observation time was over that I realized that the professor was not simply trying to treat the patient's illness, but was treating the patient's heart, the deepest part of their heart, a place we can't even see.
What impressed me about the first consultation with the patient was the professor's patience. When he focused on and questioned whether the patient had recovered, the professor emphasized that he should slowly fan himself like a tightrope walker, focusing on the illness and not proceed with treatment.
The professor emphasized not only the disease with the patient, but also the patient's own attitude and enlightenment. Another surprising thing was that the patient and their guardian looked really happy after the consultation with the professor.
I've been thinking a lot lately about how to form a relationship between patient and doctor. To be honest, I was still confused even after the first consultation, but I finally had a chance to understand how to form a relationship with the patient through the way the professor handled the second consultation. The second consultation with the patient was truly impressive.
It was a patient who was planning RT for prostate cancer, and I could see the professor talking to the patient a lot before he actually started explaining the direction of the treatment. It wasn't about the disease at all, but a very personal and intimate conversation. When the patient said that it felt like they were talking at home, not in a hospital, it was definitely a necessary time for the patient who was filled with fear because of the disease.
I have seen and experienced a lot of 3-minute consultations, frankly even less than 3 minutes, but the professor spent a full hour talking to the patient about this and that, opening up the patient's mind as much as possible. He opened up the patient's body and mind that were suppressed by the disease and fear of the disease. I felt that the patient's complexion, which had been pale when they first opened the door to the consultation room, gradually brightened and they began to smile again through their conversation with the professor.
It was a time when I could understand the true meaning of being a doctor. Any doctor can cure a disease, but today I was honored to learn and see who the doctor is who truly makes the buds deep inside the patient's heart sprout. The professor emphasized that you need to be in that situation to understand the feeling and that you need to try to realize that feeling.
The professor first had a casual, private conversation with the patient, and then explained the direction of treatment to the patient by bringing out a model after making the patient think of the disease not simply as a disease, but as winter to welcome spring, and made the patient wait for spring. I was surprised when I saw it, and every word he said went straight into my ears. It felt like hope was filling me up again.
After observing this amazing consultation by the professor, the professor showed me a poem he wrote, "Winter Past, Spring Arrives", and we even listened to CCM. This poem was truly something only the professor could have written.
When I first read and listened to the poem, I simply thought of spring and winter as the four seasons we know, but the professor said that this spring and summer are not just seasons, but can be our lives. What is the winter of life? For patients, now that they are sick is winter. He said that you have to give those patients spring. So, to give spring, you need to realize that we ourselves must first become spring.
As I listened to those words, I wondered if I could be the spring that could give spring to patients? Am I living without any thought right now? I was worried that I was settling for whatever reality threw at me and only worrying about the future. I wanted to ask the professor how I could become spring, or how I could get a little closer to it. It seemed that the professor was already spring, giving patients the freshness of spring, the vitality of spring.
(2019. 05. 17. Radiation Oncology Department Clinical Internship Essay, Medical School Year 4, Group 3, Han 0ran)
