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by Irina Godovikova

Two Doctors

Probably you will agree with me if I say that doctors are an important part of our lives. But they can be so different. Some of them are very knowledgeable and careful about what they do; are just interested in status and their profits.

I remember two very unusual doctors. Both of them are unique in their own way.

It was my last trip to India. The trip was going to be very interesting, until I became ill. Why didn’t I take serious a warning about drinking water from a lake or a river? In the middle of the trip, I started to have abdominal pain and felt nauscios. I thought that I ate unusual food and I believed that I would recover in couple days, but with everyday I felt worse and worse.

 One day I opened my eyes and saw an unknown person in a traditional Indian dress, who ask me in fluent English my name and where is my home? Later he explained to me that I fainted on the street and people just brought me to him. He diagnosed me in a very unusual way – He took my hand and started to count my pulse. He repeated it several times. After a time I was really surprised when he told me most of my chronic diseases. When I ask him how did he know about it, he told that he knew about it through my pulse and added that he studied it for 8 years in Buddhist monastery. He gave  me some herbs and water and after couple days I was on my feet.

It was amazing experience, which I never forget.

In a couple years later I had different medical story, and the  doctor who surprised me not less then first, but from in opposite way.

I was in SP-B in this time and going to see doctor. Because I suffered from pain in pelvic part of my belly.

It was women of middle age, which seemed to be nice in the beginning. After all analyses and research she gave me diagnosis – appendicitis’. I told her that I can’t have appendicitis, because already had this operation when I was 16. She scans me from the top to the bottom of my body and started to yell. She told that she had 20 years experience and can recognize common diagnose like appendicitis. I was so scared and ran away from the room. In this day I saw her the last time.

Doctors are very an important profession. And if you choose to do it for your life you have to take all responsibilities about it. And it’s has to have attitude to help people and make their lives easier and happier.