The Hands That Heal... Is not mine

Doctor's hand has the ability to heal people.

Rubbish.

My hands and the patient's are just the same, except for our fingerprints (subhanallah, a miracle), and whatever anatomical differences.

It cannot heal. Only Allah may heal people. My hands can only be guided to do good. Or bad.

If we look back retrospectively, how much good have we done with the hands given to us? Being doctors, we have that responsibility to use our hands for good and never for harm unless the benefits outweighs the harm such as in surgery. Our hands have that scary potential of causing harm to our patient's whom trust us to touch them. Very few occupation allows us to touch another person when that other person is not Muhrim or related to us. So heavy a doctors responsibility with his or her hands.

Since I started working as a doctor, oh how many mistakes I have caused, and the repercussions only Allah knows. I pray that Allah guide my hands to do good and avoid harm to self and others.

Peripheral neuropathies and rheumatoid arthritis bites. I pray that our hand function well so that we can continue to do good with them Insyallah.

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