He arrived at the hospital in a hurry. He was still sweating, panting, and could barely stand. For 5 minutes, he stood motionless, like a statue, until he recovered.
He had been called urgently for surgery. When he recovered, the doctor changed, washed his hands, and hurried to the operating room. There, he came across the patient’s father. Leaning against the wall in tears…
When he saw the doctor, he started screaming at him: “Aren’t you normal? What’s with you? My son is struggling between life and death and you are not here to help him! Do you really have no responsibility? ”
At that moment, the doctor took his hand, smiled at him and, with an almost unreal gentleness, replied: “I am very sorry… I was not in the hospital. When I got the call, I came as fast as I could. Now, I’m going to ask you to calm down and let me do my job… ”
Instead of reassuring him, however, the doctor’s worse words agitated the man. “How can I calm down? How dare you ask me something like that ?! If your son had been there, and not my son, would you have been just as calm? ”The man asked.
The doctor smiled at him and said, “With God’s help, we will do our best to save your son’s life. We pray to the Lord to give us strength, you should also pray for his life. ”
“It’s easy to give advice when you’re not in such a situation,” the patient’s father replied.
The surgery, extremely complicated, lasted several hours, during which the man was at the door, nervous, tired, and tormented by dark thoughts. At one point, the doctor came out of the operating room. He was smiling. “Thank God, your son is well, the operation was a success! If you have any questions, please talk to the nurses, ” he told the man, then ran down the hospital lobby and disappeared.
“Why be so arrogant? Couldn’t he wait a minute, tell me how my son is feeling? ” The man asked the nurses.
With tears in her eyes, one of the nurses replied: “His son died yesterday in a car accident. When I called him to come to the hospital to operate on your son, he was at his child’s funeral. Now that he has saved your boy’s life, he is in a hurry to get to his own son’s funeral… “
When he heard this, the man felt himself fall from his feet. His blood froze in his veins. He fell to his knees, then crouched on the floor and cried. He felt the last man… And yet his soul was full of immense joy. He lived. His son was alive…