19 April, 2020. This picture was taken while we were losing our co-fighters (doctors) one by one during the peak of Covid-19 pandemic. My kids used to watch this horrific news on TV. At that time, I was the sole duty doctor in Covid ward in my hospital. This is the picture of that day …
“I wish someone would let me have proper sleep for two hours!” I wonder whether there is a single doctor who didn’t have this wish in his/her lifetime. We are waving our lives bit by bit with busy days and sleepless nights, having silent prayer in our mind- “Forgive my languor, O lord, If ever …
While I was on night duty during last Ramadan, her parents came running with her to the emergency department of Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital at 4:30 am. I found her heart rate 29 beats per minute and oxygen saturation 22%. I gave her CPR for more than one and half hours, she made heart rate …
“I’ve spent my entire career learning from others, and even at this stage I still find I’m learning every day.” Having worked in different healthcare settings in the field of paediatrics for approximately thirty years, I have had my fair share of ups and downs. But with it comes experience and with experiences comes with …
This photograph represents a myriad different things to me. Bleak on first impression, you can either see some light in the distance or the dark colourless life in front of you, or you see both. For me it also has something of beauty as I know in full sunshine what the same view will look …
“I was stuck at the hospital with the job scope of an entire team, continuing service in all our department’s wards purely on survival mode. Gone was personalised patient care; we would put patients on default protocol, throw in some supplements, and hope for the best.“ “It’s very difficult,” whined yet another patient. That, I …
“Working long hours and continuously for months, one wave after another, definitely did take a toll on my life. In February 2021, after the second covid wave, I felt fatigued. There was this constant tiredness despite having a proper sleep the night before.“ I worked as an Anaesthetic Registrar during the first and second covid …
“We push ourselves to help others, even if it means losing sight of who we are. But we have our basic emotional needs, like everybody else. The nature of the profession, which is that you work to help others, makes you forget that sometimes you need help, too.“ In my job, I see a lot …
“I lost both men I dated in med school to suicide. Not during medical school, but later. And here they are. And so this is like a really big problem and that’s why I’m obsessed and I can’t get off this topic until we address it in a serious way because it does deserve serious …
“There was just no way I was going to sit and kill a dog to try to become a doctor. It just didn’t make any sense at all.” Like most medical students, I started first year really happy and excited. I was finally getting my dream off the ground. So then what really threw me …