Soka Medical Group meeting on 29/06/07
1) A nurse who went on a course on Holistic treatment: alternative treatment for cancer and other diseases shared her experiences briefly and commented on the effectiveness of the course and sought the opinion of the members present of the possibility of arranging and paying the speaker to come to SMG to give lessons.
I was late b’cos I rushed down from tampines to collect the goodie bags for milk run and caught hence caught only briefly what she said – “ Meditation is good and even patients of cancer stage four told her that it works and that they felt pain subsided only after 4 days of treatment. …… Vit B group are good supplements ……. Medicine itself alone doesn’t heal if without more of the communication between the patient and care-giver ….. She went back her workplace and taught her patients of these alternative treatments and apparently they worked. ”
2) A ITE nursing course graduate, chia, was humble in sharing that he got 2 lee kuan yew awards- one for technology and the other for model student. He shared that he wanted to do nursing as he wanted to go to help out in 3rd world countries since young. He didn’t manage to get into poly however but instead go to ITE. in his 2 yrs of study, he only watched 5 movies in total, and he go for soka meetings and after that would rush back home to study. He was very focused and disciplined as he knew what he wanted to do. He studied hard and though he didn’t aim for the awards, the got them. He’ll either get a no-bond lee kuan yew scholarship to study nursing at poly or Tan Tock Seng hospital has offered to pay for his fees also with bonuses every year. Hence he said studying hard can get you good results but opportunities on happen with good fortune. He certainly showed a great example in showing that great faith and Buddhist practice and hard work (it once again reminded me that in Buddhism, you don’t pray and wait for things to happen without great effort) will make one go far.
In addition, soka is always where I start to really make frens from poly, ITEs, and learnt my humility and that “xing xiong bu wen chu sheng” ie the original background of someone outstanding is not really important. And that ITE, poly students are also execellent people and we have so much to learn from them.
3) A speech therapist who(very beautiful lady J ) graduated from Australia shared briefly on her profession and I can sense her pride in what she is doing though she didn’t state explicitly. She dealt with people with swallowing problems and she said that patients sometimes claimed, “Eating and swallowing is very important. You might as well shoot me if I can’t do them.” Yes! Indeed, at that moment, I thought that it’s so true and that dentistry deals with mastication etc too. And like I’ve always believed improving their eating etc is a great way we contribute to their quality of life!
She shared that Asian culture is still pretty much medical professional orientated instead of patient-oriented system where the decision of treatment is much decided by the patients themselves. Hmmm, A note to reflect on.
4) A TCM practitioner going overseas to study PHD this weekend.
It is so wonderful to know that people from different areas of health care are all going for the same goal of HUMANISTIC HEALTHCARE. I yearn to see more pharmacists here but it’s very rare to see pharmacist NUS soka Student division students here though I kept updating them of the meetings. I wonder why they dun want to attend. Too busy with SD side?
5) Chia is now working intern at one of the hospital and he raised a question. At the workplace, one of the equipments (sorry the name was a jargon to me) has those alarm function. Yet usually when It went off, “old bird” nurses would dismiss it and merely switch the alarm off or even alter the settings of threshold of the alarm without consulting the doctors. He, as a greenhorn, once observed that something was wrong with a patient when the alarm went off again and yet once again the nurses dismissed it. He saved that patient who was sent to ICU. His question to the nurses at today’s meeting was what he should do as a greenhorn as he don’t want to offend the other old bird nurses yet he also don’t want to become one who would mechanistically turn off the alarm without checking. especially as a Buddhist practitioner who advocates humanistic healthcare, he felt it’s not right to do so.
The senior nurses at the meeting shared that he should chant and do what he think is right instead of fearing that he would offend the other nurses and shared their experiences. It’s human life we are dealing here!
(It lead me again to think how sometimes in dentistry we are forced to catch up with the class especially when sometimes I’m the slowest of the 42 classmates but yet I don’t want to merely rush things through. It’s a balance….)
Indeed SMG meetings are where we juniors learn from the seniors’ experiences and I’m always glad to learn from other healthcare professionals about their work. I study dentistry and take pride in it but I still see myself mainly as a healthcare professional part of the bigger inter-related health care system so I see the need to update myself of the information of other counterparts.
Yup I think It’s worth it to skip today’s yoga lesson then for this meeting. Ha.
Was thinking maybe I can share next meeting on what I’m going to learn at the adhesive dentistry course. Afterall I paid so much for it might as well let more ppl learn….
Constance said they all requested more medical support help at NDP and urged us to sign up.
I was late b’cos I rushed down from tampines to collect the goodie bags for milk run and caught hence caught only briefly what she said – “ Meditation is good and even patients of cancer stage four told her that it works and that they felt pain subsided only after 4 days of treatment. …… Vit B group are good supplements ……. Medicine itself alone doesn’t heal if without more of the communication between the patient and care-giver ….. She went back her workplace and taught her patients of these alternative treatments and apparently they worked. ”
2) A ITE nursing course graduate, chia, was humble in sharing that he got 2 lee kuan yew awards- one for technology and the other for model student. He shared that he wanted to do nursing as he wanted to go to help out in 3rd world countries since young. He didn’t manage to get into poly however but instead go to ITE. in his 2 yrs of study, he only watched 5 movies in total, and he go for soka meetings and after that would rush back home to study. He was very focused and disciplined as he knew what he wanted to do. He studied hard and though he didn’t aim for the awards, the got them. He’ll either get a no-bond lee kuan yew scholarship to study nursing at poly or Tan Tock Seng hospital has offered to pay for his fees also with bonuses every year. Hence he said studying hard can get you good results but opportunities on happen with good fortune. He certainly showed a great example in showing that great faith and Buddhist practice and hard work (it once again reminded me that in Buddhism, you don’t pray and wait for things to happen without great effort) will make one go far.
In addition, soka is always where I start to really make frens from poly, ITEs, and learnt my humility and that “xing xiong bu wen chu sheng” ie the original background of someone outstanding is not really important. And that ITE, poly students are also execellent people and we have so much to learn from them.
3) A speech therapist who(very beautiful lady J ) graduated from Australia shared briefly on her profession and I can sense her pride in what she is doing though she didn’t state explicitly. She dealt with people with swallowing problems and she said that patients sometimes claimed, “Eating and swallowing is very important. You might as well shoot me if I can’t do them.” Yes! Indeed, at that moment, I thought that it’s so true and that dentistry deals with mastication etc too. And like I’ve always believed improving their eating etc is a great way we contribute to their quality of life!
She shared that Asian culture is still pretty much medical professional orientated instead of patient-oriented system where the decision of treatment is much decided by the patients themselves. Hmmm, A note to reflect on.
4) A TCM practitioner going overseas to study PHD this weekend.
It is so wonderful to know that people from different areas of health care are all going for the same goal of HUMANISTIC HEALTHCARE. I yearn to see more pharmacists here but it’s very rare to see pharmacist NUS soka Student division students here though I kept updating them of the meetings. I wonder why they dun want to attend. Too busy with SD side?
5) Chia is now working intern at one of the hospital and he raised a question. At the workplace, one of the equipments (sorry the name was a jargon to me) has those alarm function. Yet usually when It went off, “old bird” nurses would dismiss it and merely switch the alarm off or even alter the settings of threshold of the alarm without consulting the doctors. He, as a greenhorn, once observed that something was wrong with a patient when the alarm went off again and yet once again the nurses dismissed it. He saved that patient who was sent to ICU. His question to the nurses at today’s meeting was what he should do as a greenhorn as he don’t want to offend the other old bird nurses yet he also don’t want to become one who would mechanistically turn off the alarm without checking. especially as a Buddhist practitioner who advocates humanistic healthcare, he felt it’s not right to do so.
The senior nurses at the meeting shared that he should chant and do what he think is right instead of fearing that he would offend the other nurses and shared their experiences. It’s human life we are dealing here!
(It lead me again to think how sometimes in dentistry we are forced to catch up with the class especially when sometimes I’m the slowest of the 42 classmates but yet I don’t want to merely rush things through. It’s a balance….)
Indeed SMG meetings are where we juniors learn from the seniors’ experiences and I’m always glad to learn from other healthcare professionals about their work. I study dentistry and take pride in it but I still see myself mainly as a healthcare professional part of the bigger inter-related health care system so I see the need to update myself of the information of other counterparts.
Yup I think It’s worth it to skip today’s yoga lesson then for this meeting. Ha.
Was thinking maybe I can share next meeting on what I’m going to learn at the adhesive dentistry course. Afterall I paid so much for it might as well let more ppl learn….
Constance said they all requested more medical support help at NDP and urged us to sign up.
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