I Sat There like a Stone!

 

 

Rosanna sat there watching the surgery room with other interns like herself. The doctor was performing an orthopedic surgery, on an accident case. She carefully observed how the doctor put the steel plates to support the bone, tightened the screws and sutured the wound with surgical threads. She had recently graduated as a clinical nurse practitioner. It was amazing how much medical science has progressed. All interns were supposed to observe and take notes. They would later have to discuss the learnings.

Rosanna was enjoying the experience, noting down everything her eyes could see, and her brain could perceive. She was a practical person; it was all brains with her. She chose this profession because she was a straight A student, who didn’t let emotions and feelings get in her way. Or so she thought. After the surgery, the doctor declared to the interns that there is a chance that the patient wouldn’t be able to walk post the accident. He then told Rosanna, “This is your first lesson. You have to go and inform the kid’s parents about him being unable to walk post the accident.”

She hadn’t even noticed that the patient on whom the doctor performed the surgery was an eight-year-old child. She gladly got up and went outside to find an ailing father and a crying mother run towards her. The mother whose eyes had welled up with tears, but still had a little hope could muster the words, “Will my child be able to walk?” Rosanna, the supposedly practical person, had a sudden surge of emotions and she sat there like a stone!