The Good and Bad Doctor in My Life

The Good and Bad Doctor in My Life

Most doctors believe that being a doctor needs a lot of good qualities, such as competence, responsibility and professionalism.  However, some others ignore that.  While good doctors are responsible and competent, bad ones are careless, incompetent and even impatient.

I remember one day, I got sick.  I had a terrible headache pain almost every day.  I coughed and coughed all the time.  When my parents noticed that I coughed too much, they decided to bring me to the hospital.  Arriving at the hospital, I told the doctor I thought it was a cold. The doctor, J. Franklin, worked at St. Louis Hospital in Haiti as the main doctor.  At this moment, I felt so bad.  I felt my body’s temperature increased and was more than it would normally be. My whole body was so hot.

After a few minutes, the doctor impatiently tried to give me something to drink.  I took the medicine he ordered me and drank it.  When I finished drinking the medicine, I felt uneasy. I couldn’t really know what happened to me because I felt confused, bored and even dizzy.  I couldn’t clearly identify anybody. That was the worst moment in my life.  It was then that the doctor said to my parents, “He is going to be fine. That was my mistake. I apologize, right…”

“Doctor, what happened?” replied my parents. The doctor said that he realized that he was supposed to take my body’s temperature first in order to determine the level of temperature and what it was exactly.  The situation was deplorable. Eventually, the doctor noticed the medicine he gave me was not appropriate for my illness, so it affected my mind.

The next day, my parents asked the main doctor who was in charge to send me to another hospital named St. Anthony Hospital where I found a very nice doctor to treat me. Unlike Dr. Franklin, he was friendly, competent, careful and patient. His name was Yves Davermann. He knew what had to do. The first thing he did was he asked me how I felt. He quickly prescribed me some ibuprofen for relieving my headache pain and made me do some tests. He explained, “This test is very important.  It helps me to determine exactly what you have and how you could feel”.  He also asked me when and where I did my last check-ups. Then, he took my body’s temperature and a small amount of blood from my arm. Some minutes later, he told me that it was flu.  “You don’t have to worry about it. You will recover in a short time, right” he kept explaining.

After that, the doctor prescribed me some medicines like aspirin, chloroquine and vitamins C to take twice or three times a day. I followed exactly as the doctor ordered me and then, one week after, I was cured. I was on the mend. I felt like someone that nothing had happened. I felt healthy and was back on my feet. That’s why I notice that all the doctors don’t believe in the same way that being doctor requires a lot of good qualities. For me, to be a good doctor, you must be competent, responsible, careful and patient.  In contrast, bad ones are impatient, careless, impatient and unprofessional.