Don't write when you're angry

But it's sometimes so therapeutic when you write when you're angry. I'm going to break my own rules and tell what happened today.

Eastern european doctor prescibes injections for a patient suffering from neck pain. The patient has had every test imaginable, and everything has come back normal. The prescription list two injections I am to administer.

I don't accept prescriptions from foreign doctors with unidentifiable medicines. The local doctor (western trained) does some research on the injections prescribed. He finds out that they are not only banned in all western countries, but they have very dangerous side effects, and that they would not help in any way. The local doctor even said that if he gave them, he would most likely lose his licence.

This is actually not unusual. What made me angry is when I politely explained to the parents that we cannot do this, that I got yelled at. The parents demanded that their child see a 'specialist' and told me that western trained nurses have a terrible reputation.

This is actually not new. I've heard this, and worse, many times. I don't know why it's bothering me so much. Perhaps what's really bothering me is that this child is going to have a potentially harmful treatment, and no one is listening.