First Death Case which made me cry
Honestly, I never thought I’d cry over a patient I never met.
So, most of you might not know, but I work in clinical research. Agar mai ekdam simple bhasha mein samjhaun toh har samay poori duniya mein bohot saare clinical trials hote rehte hain. Clinical Trials - the trials done on actual patients before a drug(medication) is launched into the market, to test the efficacy of that drug. Toh mere pas jo bhi clinical trials k projects hote hain, unmein jo bhi patients enrolled hote hain worldwide, I deal with that patient data.
So initially, jab mai yeh kaam seekh rhi thi, mujhe bohot time lagta tha ek ek case krne mein, aur mai bohot zyada frustrate hojaati thi until one day, when I received my FIRST DEATH CASE!!!
I, very vividly remember, a 51-year old patient from India, already suffering from lung cancer, pericardial effusion and pulmonary embolism. It literally shook me from within and I still remember that feeling.
Us din mujhe realise hua ki jinhe hum SUBJECTS kehte hain, not even patients, just ‘SUBJECTS’, they are actually real people with real families and stories.
You might find it a bit dramatic but the realisation that somebody in my country lost their father, their brother, their husband, their friend, left me in tears. Us din mai phoot phoot ke royi.
I know agar aap medical field mein ho toh you cannot be emotional about everything but it’s way easier said than done.
If someone’s associated with the medical field is reading this, have you also felt this emotional turmoil? I would love to know that I am not alone in this.