Chacapna: The arrogant doctor in the Palarong Panglungsod

“It doesn’t take an instant more, or cost a penny more, to be empathetic than it does to be indifferent “-Brian Lee

I HAVE met a doctor at City high in the person of Dr. Jocelyn M. de Jesus. Every year end, all employees must submit medical results which spells out fitness or unfitness to perform public duty. Unless, illness frequently loves to visit your body, then her desk surely is your destination. But not before passing several of her accommodating, caring and humble nurses. One time I felt abnormal palpitations and cold sweat over my hand and body, that was after a short lecture in one of the several noisy and undisciplined classes. I went straight to the clinic and undergone some short checkup from her nurses. Then, she advised me to reduce or totally remove consumption of three in one coffees, drink a lot of water and exercise regularly. She explained the causes and preventions of ailments that I will probably have like hypertensions, high blood pressures, mild strokes, arthritis, some minor respiratory ailments and the likes arising from the teaching profession. In all those years that I have met her, she remains humble, caring, flexible and accommodating but most especially her patience in all the medical certificates that I have requested purposely like driver’s license, coaching and yearend clearances.

So I was a bit worried when I heard of her transfer at the Division office. What if, her replacement will act the opposite of her good character like say, being arrogant, indifferent and disobliging. Well I am beginning to think that it will be the case. That is if this replacement doctor has not signed several athletes and coaches’ medical certificates for the Palarong panglungsod for reason that she has already set a deadline for signing. Say, all late submissions will not be accommodated, hence those who are late must go to private or public hospital. Vis-à-vis to the deadline, will it mean that coaches and athletes will schedule the suffering of any ailments? Is the word flexibility not applicable considering that majority of the athletes are public students? And we all know the financial situations of public athletes. Not only that, several coaches are not Mapeh teachers, and they serve only as pro bono. Can we bend rules intentionally, for the common good?

According to Mahatma Gandhi, “A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.” Substituting the word costumer with student, the very purpose of a medical doctor in public school is to serve the students with utmost dedication because ailing students will give the physicians existence. With an arrogant doctor, fear and doubts may exist in entering the medical clinic. So the next time that you will see an ailing students in the class or anywhere in the school, just bring them to the principal or supervisory office because surely some head teachers or principals are doctors. To be continued

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