teacher

i am a teacher at work. i enjoy working with students - imparting what little knowledge i have into their impressionable little heads.

i say i have little knowledge, but i do know more than what i give myself credit for. the reasonings, process and theory are things anyone can teach. the things i enjoy teaching are the things you can't express in words. and such things can only be taught by leading by example. no one spends years at uni and thousands of dollars to learn how to help carry a patient's bag or to walk with them down a corridor yet it is those very things which patients really appreciate - they don't understand the techincal details.

and today i think we achieved something, for my colleague and i were treating a patient who was blind, immobile, diabectic (i wonder at why diabetes was of any relevance to us - but it was noted in BOLD on our notes) and in incredible amounts of pain. by taking the time and showing much kindness my colleague and i accomplished what we needed to without any difficulty. and i know we achieved something because after we finished the student who had been observing said my colleague and i made a good team...