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Prompt 184: Changes /Theatrical Muse Challenge
Current Topic: Curt: We set out to change the world and ending up… just changing ourselves.
Arthur: What's wrong with that?
Curt: Nothing! … If you don't look at the world.
(Todd Haynes, Velvet Goldmine)
I've talked often about my work with Medecins Sans Frontieres, about the reasons for my joining, my disillusionment with where my life was at and what I thought my future held. Like most young doctors, I entered the program with intentions of changing the world and instead found myself the one who was changed and as much as I would like to tell you when that moment happened I don't even know myself.
Every mission you go on exposes you to entirely new situations, but one thing remains constant, and that is the patients who find a way to touch your heart, no matter how often you tell yourself you're not going to allow it to happen.
As a surgeon I rarely form any kind of attachment to my patients on a day to day basis. Often times I may not even see them before I am standing over them in the operating room, I don't have that luxury here, and maybe that's why these tours affect me the way they do. Somehow, mission by mission, year after year, as I returned seeking to heal them, they found a way inside of the surgeon's shell that served me so well in the normal everyday hospital setting. Somehow, as I sought to change things for them, they changed me.
Muse: Nicolas Kokoris
Fandom: Presidio Med
Words: 219
Arthur: What's wrong with that?
Curt: Nothing! … If you don't look at the world.
(Todd Haynes, Velvet Goldmine)
I've talked often about my work with Medecins Sans Frontieres, about the reasons for my joining, my disillusionment with where my life was at and what I thought my future held. Like most young doctors, I entered the program with intentions of changing the world and instead found myself the one who was changed and as much as I would like to tell you when that moment happened I don't even know myself.
Every mission you go on exposes you to entirely new situations, but one thing remains constant, and that is the patients who find a way to touch your heart, no matter how often you tell yourself you're not going to allow it to happen.
As a surgeon I rarely form any kind of attachment to my patients on a day to day basis. Often times I may not even see them before I am standing over them in the operating room, I don't have that luxury here, and maybe that's why these tours affect me the way they do. Somehow, mission by mission, year after year, as I returned seeking to heal them, they found a way inside of the surgeon's shell that served me so well in the normal everyday hospital setting. Somehow, as I sought to change things for them, they changed me.
Muse: Nicolas Kokoris
Fandom: Presidio Med
Words: 219
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