Sometimes in 2023, I was working as a staff, and during my first week of resumption, one of the staff members was attacked by severe stomach pain. I was instructed to take him to the hospital for diagnosis to know what was wrong because he was in serious pain. It was my first time taking someone to the hospital. When we got to the hospital, the doctor approached us after seeing that the guy was crying and shouting. The next thing he and his team did was to take the guy from me, admit him, and fix a drip on him.
When my boss called to know the situation, I told him that the guy had been admitted already. He immediately queried me harshly and said I would use my own money to settle the bill because he didn’t send me to admit him but rather to carry out a scan to know the cause of the pain. When I tried to explain that the doctor had handled the situation to reduce the pain, my boss scolded me even more and said I shouldn’t have allowed the doctor to do that because that’s how they operate. Then, he hung up the call.
As soon as he hung up, my anger turned toward the doctor, who deliberately decided to admit the guy just because he needed money. I quarreled with him loudly, and other staff came to his rescue because even though he was pretending to be innocent, he was wrong, and my voice was winning the argument. But the deed had already been done, and I had to pay from my own pocket for the drip that was administered to the guy.
I hate the pattern in which even sensitive services like healthcare are now more dedicated to the business aspect instead of the service they are called to render. I know the doctor was about saving my colleague, but still, he took advantage of my amateur understanding of hospital operations. He was all out to make his daily earnings and not truly concerned about the wellbeing of the patient. This is how most medical practitioners establish their own private medical centres—with an aggressive money-making mindset—and are not totally concerned about the main aim of being a medical practitioner.
Should I talk about religious leaders of today? I bet you don't want me to. Lol
Should I talk about employees?
I was once an employee in a field unrelated to my area of study, and to be honest, the main goal was just to get paid at the end of the month. Almost all the staff were on the same line with me. Every day at work, we would be counting down to the closing hour, and afterward, counting down to the last day of the month to get paid.
It wasn’t like this many years ago. Back then, people worked with passion mixed with ambition. People did jobs not just for the money but for the satisfaction of the heart. How do we go back to that?
The world is advancing every day, and I don’t think it’s ever possible to go back and live like in the days when services, jobs, and businesses were not attached to money as the 99% reason for engaging in them.
Thanks for reading.
This is my entry to Week 190, Edition 01 of the Weekly Featured contest in Hive Learners Community