"Taste the medicine you were giving your patients!"
The title of a wonderful book by the American author and physician Edward Rosenbaum, that he gained wide acclaim as he talks about his biography and his career with throat cancer. And after the book became popular, and it was translated into a 1991 film entitled The Doctor, the film also gained a fair amount of fame. The title of the book, `` Taste of own medicine '' is inspired by a phrase famous for in one of the tales and legends of the Greek novelist Aesop, where the events of that novel revolve around a fraudster who sells counterfeit medicines, claiming that they are the most effective treatment despite his bitterness, and when that fraudster got sick, people gave him the fake medicine Then he dosed the bitter melon, knowing that he would not heal him and would not cure him!
How did doctor Edward Rosenbaum deal with his patients before he developed throat cancer?
As for the author's story and the film inspired by the book, it revolves around a successful heart surgeon famous in the best hospitals in America and he gathered glory from his limbs and devoted all his time to work, work, then work, and work is nothing but work that achieves itself !, the thing that made him a cold-hearted Not only towards his patients, although they are projects to climb up to him on the ladder (glory), but even with the people closest to him: his wife! Even worse, he rarely saw his only son!
What did doctor Edward Roseennaum react to the moment he knew he had cancer?
Yes, he was a successful doctor who excels in many fields except for a person with feelings that understands the feelings of his patients and their suffering! He was like many of those around him in that surgical clinic seeing patients as nothing but numbers, their family and room numbers, did not remember their names and did not wish to. He had quit smoking a long time ago and did not feel the importance of chronic throat pain, and suddenly he coughed up blood, and instead of going to the family doctor as he used to without any result, he chose this time the most famous doctors in his advanced hospital, but the most famous doctors in his state, a beautiful woman who excels in her work, famous for her successes, and then she met him coldly even without Extended her hand to shake hands with him And she tells him immediately after the examination without hesitation and without any feelings or complacency: "You have a tumor in the vocal cords." And after he received the shock, he wanted to share with him drawing this treatment path if you did not treat him as a colleague. She refused and told him: Rather do as I tell you, for you are now my patient.
How did the life of Doctor Edward Roseennaum become after learning of his illness?
New life, led by Doctor Edward Roseennaum
Our doctor, after his injury, begins to discover life again and gives importance to things that he has long abandoned, or reduced their importance, including what is most important in life: the family ... During the course of treatment he gets to know other patients, feel them, and recognize their problems, including the young girl John who suffered from refusal of insurance coverage Expenses for costly examinations, due to which the diagnosis was delayed for months until surgery became impossible to eradicate her brain tumor! She learned from her companions what the medical books did not teach him, she taught him how to resist and how to open his arms and believe his feelings, followed by his words to the people around him ...
After the failure of several attempts to reduce the tumor with radiotherapy, he becomes frustrated, and during this relapse episode he meets his friend John and asks her from where do you bring the force to continue? John takes our patient, a surgeon, to the roof of the high hospital, overlooking the city of Toll. I came up here when I learned of the diagnosis of a brain tumor and I screamed at the top of my voice and suddenly found a pigeon looking at me as if it was laughing and I don’t know if it was pitying or mocking me! Either way I had to stop screaming and fight back! Perhaps that dove is my guardian angel! And now you have to shout to feel better, and he answered, No, I don't want, she said to him, Jump off the top of the building then! He replied, No, I do not want. She said if you are left with only one option, which is to resist.
The humane of Dr. Edward Roseennaum in dealing with people and with patients
From accompanying patients as a patient, he began to understand and feel the suffering of patients and the extent of failure in the health sector (in the field of our profession!), And the amount of delay in the routine that may deprive patients of the chance to survive! That swelling in his throat made him see his life and the lives of the people around him, his colleagues and his patients with insight, so he became more humble and left his arrogant old style, becoming more friendly and compassionate to the patients, then he started choosing his colleagues, and even choosing his physician! So he replaced that arrogant specialist and the first and most famous in his hospital with a colleague who was younger, less experienced, but more humane. When he presented him with his medical file, he said: Accept me as a patient, and accept my apologies, so as long as I mocked you and bullied you! The less experienced colleague met him with kindness and tenderness and joked: I am pleased with that, as I always wanted to cut your throat! The film ends with a scene as he gathers his students and asks them to wear patients ’clothes to undergo all kinds of tests that they will one day prescribe to their patients.
