The Perceptions Of Life

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The perceptions of life


I thought that it would be fun to be a physician’s assistant. The though of doing the doctors job when he couldn’t would make me feel like I was in charge of things, but was I wrong. Its more work than I thought. Being a P.A takes time and a whole lot of prayer. You must watch your emotions and separate them from work, and reality. When people come in the office they come in for care, and not opinions. I had to learn the hard way.
One day a lady came into the office with a very deep cut to her side. When I was paged to view the cut, and to determine wither or not the lady would need stitches I simply had no Idea what I was getting myself into. When I walked in the room with the lady’s chart in my hand I looked up to see that the lady had been badly beaten. When I asked her what happened she said that she had fallen down all of the stairs in her house. I could tell that she had been hit in her face many times. So as most P.As do I called for the x-ray of the skull and of her side, just to make sure that everything was okay and that nothing was broken. I asked the lady to remove her shirt she was very slow about the matter. After she removed her shirt, and I saw the eight inch gash in her side I knew in my heart that some crazy man had done this to her. I asked my nurse to leave the room and I begin to ask the lady every question in the book. I asked her when did this happen and why? She told me that it was none of my concern, and to stitch her up so she could go home. My heart went out to the woman because seeing her pain made me remember my abusive relationship, and going through the same thing that she did. It hurt to see that she knew that a man had hurt her, but she was blindly in love to see that.
I told her that I knew what really happened, and she was safe to tell me anything. When I offered her my friendship from one abused to the next she said that she did not want my pity. I knew that the...