Religion: The Confirmation

 One of my close friends is a doctor and on one day we had an interesting chat regarding one status that I put on social media. This was during my early to mid 20s and by this time it's safe to say that I had started seeing myself as an agnostic if not an atheist. The status was something related to the wage revision of nurses and it was creating a lot of noise and protest during that time. For people of my age, I'm sure that this would have been a new information that nurses irrespective of how much important their role is, are getting paid way below par. This made me think and that realization of how much importance there is for such a job crept in. As they say, things happen for a reason, after seeing my status, my friend who is doctor said about the things that everyone in the medical field has to go through.

Even though the post was about nurses being under paid, the discussion expanded to multiple facets like how normal people view medical professionals. Since my friend was a doctor, naturally the discussion also involved about the sacrifices that doctors have to make. This conversation made me realize that something we view normally has an entirely different look and feel from another side. During this discussion, one of the topics that came up with respect to the issues that medical professionals face was, relatives/friends of the patient manhandling the doctor if the patient, unfortunately after the best efforts of a professional, doesn't make it.

We always hear such news of people trying to abuse, physically hurt or in cases even murdering the doctor who tried his/her best to save a human life. This is a sad practice especially due to the fact that no one would have put themselves in the doctor's shoes and thought for one moment how he/she would have felt after putting their best efforts to say a human life pass. The most ironic thing that I noticed is that, when a patient recovers successfully, then the relatives/friends would thank GOD first and then only the doctor comes into picture, but if it went the other way, i.e., the patient didn't make it even after the best efforts by the doctor, the doctor gets all the abuse, gets manhandled first and in this case also, GOD gets the benefit with the statement "good people die young" or "He/She was GOD's favorite".

If hypocrisy was a movie scene, this is it, I cannot think of a better example of the heights of human hypocrisy. This conversation took me someplace that I have never been before. I started to think more and more about how I view God or the existence of a God.

To be continued....