Praise the doctor / person that helped you.

MrPudding

I thought perhaps we should have a thread to thank professional people that have helped us out in our day to day lives. Perhaps you or a close friend was desperately sick, but because of the good work of a doctor or other medical professional a full recovery was made.

Perhaps you might even want to praise yourself, that’s ok too. Maybe you were down on your luck and the future looked bleak. You had a make or break job interview and you nailed it. Well done you! You have turned your life around.

I am sure there is someone that wants to praise a loved one for helping them through a difficult time.

So anyway, you get the idea.

I will begin. A good friend of mine was very sick recently. He went to the doctor and explained all his symptoms. The doctor treated him and now he is all better. Praise the doctor!

MrP

Rev Hellfire

Surely the medical forums are more suitable for this.

Stercus Accidit

I see what you did there OP.

Goduznt Xzst

Well being a determinist, there's never only one person or event involved in generating an outcome. Even if a Surgeon saved my life, I'd feel the University he trained in, the people that wrote the books that he read, the lecturers he learned under, his parents that supported him, down to the alarm clock that woke him up that morning and it's inventor...etc all played a part in the culmination of events that led up to him having enough experience and acumen to help me.

I say thank you to Doctors in the same fashion that I say thank you to bus drivers, it's being polite but in the end of the day they are just doing their job.

MrPudding

Rev Hellfire wrote: »

Surely the medical forums are more suitable for this.

Why would you praise yourself or a family member in the medical forum? I put it here because this is where I hang around most. I also happen to think quite a lot of people here would like to see a bit of credit going where it deserves to.

MrP

MrPudding

Goduznt Xzst wrote: »

Well being a determinist, there's never only one person or event involved in generating an outcome. Even if a Surgeon saved my life, I'd feel the University he trained in, the people that wrote the books that he read, the lecturers he learned under, his parents that supported him, down to the alarm clock that woke him up that morning and it's inventor...etc all played a part in the culmination of events that led up to him having enough experience and acumen to help me.

I say thank you to Doctors in the same fashion that I say thank you to bus drivers, it's being polite but in the end of the day they are just doing their job.

OK. Thank you for your post.

MrP

Rev Hellfire

MrPudding wrote: »

Why would you praise yourself or a family member in the medical forum? I put it here because this is where I hang around most. I also happen to think quite a lot of people here would like to see a bit of credit going where it deserves to.

Perhaps I'm missing the point here...

PDN

A good few years ago I was homeless and in a lot of danger sleeping on the streets.

The good people who run the Salvation Army hostel took me in and provided me with a free bed, clothing and food. They referred me to counsellors and AA and, in my opinion, probably saved my life.

Zillah

Three weeks ago I got a phone call saying that a close friend was in hospital. Turns out she had fallen into a diabetic coma and was not found for something like 10 hours. We were told upon arrival by that she was probably not going to survive the night, that her mother had been called and was on her way over from Tipperary (we're in Vancouver at the moment).

She was in the ICU for over a week, the first four days of which were a critical coma. When she eventually woke up there were tears all round. Her Catholic mother had sprinkled her with holy water the day before her awakening and of course this was largely credited with her recovery. Mass cards arrived, we were assured that people at home were praying for her.

I, however, was painfully aware of the precise minute by minute care that a large body of staff had used to pull her back from the brink. They had desperately needed to balance her blood sugars, acidity levels, ketones and blood pressure. They had to work hard to keep her kidneys working, to keep her air mix at the right level to allow her weakened lungs to function. And a thousand other things that I, not being a medical professional, must have been entirely unaware of. She had a team of various specialists working her case.

My friend has since recovered sufficiently to travel back to Ireland where she can get her strength back. I am grateful to those ingenius individuals for their incredible standard of care, for their dedication to what they thought was a hopeless case, and to the brilliant person that invented insurance. Her bills at this point must surely be in the many hundreds of thousands, quite possibly into the millions. She flew home first class on British Airways. A black luxury car with a driver brought us to the airport.

And to think, some people call for a priest.

nozzferrahhtoo

And on the note of this thread, here is a man doing exactly this but a lot more eloquently than I am likely to achieve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hlbg4-YNfI

robindch

Well, on the day that's in it, I'd like to raise a pint to the EU for coming up with, and then implementing the E111 card which permits you access to free medical care in all EU countries.

While on holiday in Spain in August, my kid fell over in the street, hit her head and threw up everywhere. A frankly fairly tense 15 minutes followed which saw me find the nearest medical center and an immediate consult with a doctor. Two hours later, we at the nearest large hospital (in the next town) and further time with more doctors, a radiographer, x-rays, and a consultant neurologist. Thankfully, all was clean as a whistle and we enjoyed the rest of the holiday.

With the E111, we were seen immediately, dealt with in English, given excellent care and didn't have to pay a penny. It was deeply impressive.

I'd also like to give an unhesitating thumbs-up to my trusty car-navigation system which took us from one obscure place I'd never been, to another, faultlessly and first time.

The E111 is free to all EU citizens and the application instructions are here:

http://www.ehic.ie/

Dades

I'm assuming this is a response (parody?) to the Praise the Lord sticky in Christianity. :pac:

ChocolateSauce

PDN wrote: »

A good few years ago I was homeless and in a lot of danger sleeping on the streets.

The good people who run the Salvation Army hostel took me in and provided me with a free bed, clothing and food. They referred me to counsellors and AA and, in my opinion, probably saved my life.

The salvation army fed my grandfather during the great depression (he lived in some of the worst hit areas of the US), so in a way I owe my life to them too, although the same could be said for any number of people/organisations/random events throughout time.

Edit: Building on that, it's really a miracle that we're alive at all! So many things could have happened to prevent our existence, but didn't. It really makes me pleased to be alive.

Zillah

PDN wrote: »

A good few years ago I was homeless and in a lot of danger sleeping on the streets.

The good people who run the Salvation Army hostel took me in and provided me with a free bed, clothing and food. They referred me to counsellors and AA and, in my opinion, probably saved my life.

It's all so clear now.

MrPudding

Dades wrote: »

I'm assuming this is a response (parody?) to the Praise the Lord sticky in Christianity. :pac:

Oh yeah, never thought of that...:p

MrP

Handsome Bob

I'd like to praise the people I have gotten to known well on Boards.ie, thanks to them I'm not as down on myself as I used to be. I guess I can praise myself for that too.

Daftendirekt

'I think I should get a parachute because I'm great. In fact, I think I should get both parachutes in case one of them doesn't open.'

But seriously.

Can't think of anyone in particular, but I'll give a mention to my local GP for his extensive knowledge of the human body and his genuine interest in his patients.

Red Hand

First, I'd like to say sorry for hijacking this thread, but Beyonce...she had one of the best videos of all time...not taking away from y'all, but...

I'd like to thank my ancestors that contributed their gametes in an interlinking chain that eventually gave rise to me. Great grandad Lungfish no. 1986543- you made it all possible.

Calibos

Zillah wrote: »

It's all so clear now.

So, I'm not the only one who read that and thought to myself..."well that explains a lot alright"

Handsome Bob

Shock horror, digs are quickly taken in yet another thread in A&A.

MrPudding

Hardly quickly and not even really digs. Are atheist not allowed to than people that they think have helped them?

MrP

Dades

Despite the intention, people can actually use this thread for what the title suggests.

Otherwise there's no point in keeping it open. Up to you lot.

MrPudding

Despite the intention? Seriously, it might have been a reaction to a thread I might have read somewhere else, but the intention is genuine. I am fed up with people's hard work being ignored and credited to a sky wizard. A doctor saves a person that is beyond hope and god did it, we don't believ ein god so let's put the praise where we actually believe it belongs.

MrP

GLaDOS

Was involved in a altercation that proved quite serious a few weeks ago (rather not go into details)

I thank the medical staff who looked after me with patience and care, and my two friends (who wouldn't even be hugely close to me) for staying up all night in a miserable hospital.

It's not much compared to some of the other stories on this, but it's the little things that count.

MatthewVII

I've had a few relatives of patients give me the whole "It's in god's hands now" or "only God can decide when we go" thing. You just have to grin and bear it. I mean, its not like the fact that I'm staying in after my work day has finished to make sure they don't die has any bearing on what a magical man in the sky wants to do.

Húrin

Zillah wrote: »

It's all so clear now.

I wonder if any of the atheists here could bring themselves to praise the religion that motivates the SA and similar organisations to help people like PDN.

Turtwig

Húrin wrote: »

I wonder if any of the atheists here could bring themselves to praise the religion that motivates the SA and similar organisations to help people like PDN.

And wonder we shall let you continue doing..
because you seemed to already have jumped to a conclusion:P

Goduznt Xzst

I'd like to thank the delivery man for delivering a pizza to my house last night as it was delicious and without him I may have starved... eventually, you know if I hadn't gotten food elsewhere.

Hail, and blessed be the hour and moment
At which the Pizza was eaten
Of a most pure Pepperoni
At a stable at midnight in Dublin
With the piercing cold beer
At that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee,
To hear my stomachs grumblings and grant my desires
Through Pizza guy and his most Blessed Nissan Micra.

Dades

Thread... dying...

robindch

Goduznt Xzst wrote: »

my stomachs grumblings

Good heavens folks, is nothing sacred?!

Thread declared dead. No flowers please.

MrPudding

Yes, ah well. Mocking posts, like the one above, would not be tolerated on "the other" thread...:D

MrP