Human Touch

While interacting with patients in the clinics as if following the usual robotic routine which you are bound to as a practioner, sometimes it happens that a small gesture from your patients add such a thing which I would like to call as a human touch in your usual routine. This human touch came from my patient last week when me and a number of doctors were performing a minor oral surgery on that particular patient. After we were done with it we told the patient that everything went well and he will be fine in a week. The patient was very happy and obliged as if we had done something divine for him. The next day he came along with three iron packed in a paper for the three doctors who had performed surgery. I was astonished as when I got the message that the patient had left gift for me in the DP, as I was away, not to mention that I was only assisting the senior colleagues. Throughout the procedure I was holding the suction machine even then my patient though that I had done something extraordinary for him. And he had to express his gratitude through this way. What I thought afterwards was, "we never have the time even to notice major favors, sacrifices as people around us are actually doing for us and if we noticed we didn’t have the time to look back at them to say thanks or dropping some gifts wrapped in even newspaper we are loosing the human touch in our lives.