Tony’s Anatomy-#7.Seeing is not believing!

Finally,my internship program came to the end course,Pediatic medicine.I pick up hematolgy department for my 1st rotation.In the grand round by all the staff,me included, I saw a little young girl who looks like 6 years old. However,her real age is 12 years old.How come? There must be something wrong! To everyone’s surprise, her family abandon her in the hospital and we can’t get contact with her family members to know any information about her disease history.Her kidney is going down due to the tumor obstruction. What a pity it is ! Finally we arranged a tube into her body to relieve the kidney obstruction and she was now transfered to ICU.We still don’t know why she had retarded growth.Through this true story, you can know the difference of the accompany between adults and childs. Without accompany or wife, we,doctors, still can take history of patients’ disease process. But in pediatric patients, it’s obvious that we can’t.Patients’ role is very important.  There’re some news about adoption and discard in recent days. I truely hope that every child will be well cared and accompanied.Children are so cute that many people like them.But you will know how much you love them until you have to face the problems and difficulty they made.Children are not toys that you can’t discard when you don’t need them. They are truely alive persons. Don’t discard any child,please.

Tony