A friend told me that when she went for a night shift in the hospital, a middle aged female Chinese patient asked her if she could eat, she said that she only ate couple of cookies and she was extremely hungry, she asked when and where she could order food, and if she could have something to eat now. So my friend told her that food in the hospital is free and she would order a sandwich for her right away.
I felt sad for the patient, and I will blame the nurse as well as the patient herself for not having the food. I understand that she cannot speak English, but when you feel something is wrong, use hands or postures, it is a universal language. Apparently the nurse got a Chinese interpreter to help doing physical assessment, ask her.
Many Chinese know how the fight for their right in Chinese community, but they lose themselves in western environment. We are as smart as or smarter than them; we work harder than them. Why cannot we fight for our right? I think that language is the biggest barrier, but our culture plays a big role too. Tolerance, silence and acceptance seem to be good that it becomes part of our daily acting image.
I had a unique experience the first year I came into Canada. I was bitten by a bat; and my finger was bleeding. My past life experience told me that bat may cause rabies and rabies can cause death, and I was frightened. So I went to emergency and after waiting 4-5 hours, a doctor came and he checked my finger and went out, he came back in an hour. He gave me tetanus shot and then told me that he checked on internet and found the chance of getting rabies was very low and I did not need to get rabies vaccine. So I told him that if I caught rabies infection by any chance, I would die. He to me not the worry, “chances are very low”, according to his knowledge.
So I went home, could not sleep, and I was on internet the whole night. All the articles said, vaccine should be given if anyone suspected rabies bite; the death rate is 100% once you started having symptoms. And the vaccine could not help you if you are bitten over 48 hours. It really frightens me, and I started calling my friends and parents in China, crying like a baby, at that moment I wish I were in China. I did not sleep the whole night, and I went to emergency again. The triage nurse told me to see my family doctor because the emergency doctor would not see me. But my family doctor did not work that day. So I went home, desperately, I called public health, talked to somebody who was on call. He understood my situation and ordered rabies immuno-globulin and vaccine and he said he would ship them to my family doctor’s office the second day. I got my treatment within 48 hours. The experience was so vivid and frightening, I would never forget it, and I was quite proud of myself too.
Fight for your right always. You are in Canada. You may think it is worth fighting in China, but here, if you fight what is right, you benefit from it.
I felt sad for the patient, and I will blame the nurse as well as the patient herself for not having the food. I understand that she cannot speak English, but when you feel something is wrong, use hands or postures, it is a universal language. Apparently the nurse got a Chinese interpreter to help doing physical assessment, ask her.
Many Chinese know how the fight for their right in Chinese community, but they lose themselves in western environment. We are as smart as or smarter than them; we work harder than them. Why cannot we fight for our right? I think that language is the biggest barrier, but our culture plays a big role too. Tolerance, silence and acceptance seem to be good that it becomes part of our daily acting image.
I had a unique experience the first year I came into Canada. I was bitten by a bat; and my finger was bleeding. My past life experience told me that bat may cause rabies and rabies can cause death, and I was frightened. So I went to emergency and after waiting 4-5 hours, a doctor came and he checked my finger and went out, he came back in an hour. He gave me tetanus shot and then told me that he checked on internet and found the chance of getting rabies was very low and I did not need to get rabies vaccine. So I told him that if I caught rabies infection by any chance, I would die. He to me not the worry, “chances are very low”, according to his knowledge.
So I went home, could not sleep, and I was on internet the whole night. All the articles said, vaccine should be given if anyone suspected rabies bite; the death rate is 100% once you started having symptoms. And the vaccine could not help you if you are bitten over 48 hours. It really frightens me, and I started calling my friends and parents in China, crying like a baby, at that moment I wish I were in China. I did not sleep the whole night, and I went to emergency again. The triage nurse told me to see my family doctor because the emergency doctor would not see me. But my family doctor did not work that day. So I went home, desperately, I called public health, talked to somebody who was on call. He understood my situation and ordered rabies immuno-globulin and vaccine and he said he would ship them to my family doctor’s office the second day. I got my treatment within 48 hours. The experience was so vivid and frightening, I would never forget it, and I was quite proud of myself too.
Fight for your right always. You are in Canada. You may think it is worth fighting in China, but here, if you fight what is right, you benefit from it.
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