Black armband
We are not ok
#ripdrmunshi
Still wearing N95s visors etc, a reminder that we still battling a pandemic. Doctors still showing up, despite loosing colleagues to covid, suicide, GBV and cold blooded murder.
Despite what we feeling, we will show up and do our best. We will treat you, care for you, laugh with you, use our skills and knowledge to heal...not knowing if you will be the one to turn around and sue, assault or even kill us in return
-Dr Zeenat Dadabhay
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159065967721416&set=a.10150379423936416&type=3
My friend wrote a post which said, “please don’t kill us.” It really hit home.
I wonder if people realize that whenever we lose a patient, inevitably, accidentally or incidentally, (because mna I don’t know any doctors who are serial killers who wake up and deliberately harm their patients), those deaths haunt us. We carry them with us every day. We are many things, we’re smart and brilliant and some of us are funny, but we are not God. Life and medicine are such fragile entities, sometimes we intervene too quickly and sometimes we’re not quick enough. But please don’t kill us.
We already practice defensive medicine because folks are ready to sue us in a heartbeat. One could buy a GTI with the amount of money we spend on malpractice insurance (gynaes can buy a flat in midrand with theirs). But there’s no insurance against you killing us. We will simply hang up our stethoscopes and retire.
-Dr Kagiso Motse
https://www.facebook.com/564505013/posts/10164418225385014/?extid=VcgxNEa51FePUN9t&d=n
https://www.facebook.com/1171784710/posts/10224149390260449/?extid=J6RR1NsfSGW0LB71&d=n
-Dr Leandra Gow Holmes
-Dr Coceka Mfundisi