I think that many of us have seen ourselves in the situation where professionals treat us as clients or inanimate patients, as mere numbers or "cases to solve" instead of human beings with a problem or a medical condition. Not only do we need a momentary problem to be solved or we are treated for a medical condition, we all like it and we appreciate being treated as human beings, not only staying in the problem but also being able to see the person behind. Of course, I also refer to seeing the professionals who treat us as people and not as those who work for us.
In this world where every second at work is controlled, that everything must go at a specific time and place, in which we see how doctors barely have a few minutes to treat the patient and it is clear that with so little time we can not walk through the branches. That's why actions like this, that of a medical team that stops a heart operation to reassure his little two-year-old patient It makes us see that not everyone sees schedules, costs and benefits.
The little girl Xin Er Two years of age had a heart disease that required surgery. This would be done at Zhejiang University Hospital in China, but when the little girl arrived at the operating room she began to cry. If so much machine, tubes, lights and people in green coats that barely see their eyes, not to mention the risk of the operation, is able to intimidate an adult made and right imagine what you can do about a small two years.
The little girl's grief and her fear was increasing and she started calling her dad, Shi zhuo hospital's head of heart disease and who was going to direct the operation at that time decided to stop the operation and hug the little girl, went to a quieter area with her and was teaching her cartoons until the little girl calmed down and they could continue with the operation.
We are parents and we perfectly understand the fear of a child in this situation and the concern of the family, said Dr. Shi Zhuo
The photographs were taken by the anesthetist of the operation who was also with the little girl until she calmed down.
Continue and treat the disease or stop and treat the person
I guess that is the crossroads with which many doctors and professionals meet every day, I understand that you can not always stop, that there are times when you have to leave feelings aside and save a life and I know that there are times in which you have to "dehumanize" a bit to continue with your day to day.
I do not know the mechanisms of an operation, nor how urgent the situation was at that time. The best I am wrong, but I suppose it would have been easier and faster to have simply sedated the little girl and continued the operation. But they decided to stop it all and wrap a scared little girl, so that she could see that all those people around her were also worried about her, that she would not be alone and that there was nothing to fear, that her father, whom she called insistently would be there when he woke up from sleep.
I wish we all knew how to see when others need the warmth of a hug or just a "quiet, everything will be fine."
By the way, as we have learned, the girl is recovering satisfactorily from the operation.
