Field Work

     I'm going to show you a school activity today. The other day a dozen junior high school students visited my hospital to see how it is inside the hospital. Some of them were eager to become a medical doctor, some wanted to be a nurse or a pharmacist. Boys and girls think of their future vaguely when they become a junior high school student and have to choose which way to go next. In order to help them find out the chance is given to them to see or experience a lot of occupations and work places. My hospital was approached as the medical service company.
     When I was exchanging the gastrostomy tube of a patient who had been in a vegetative state for more than 5 years, the head nurse came to me and asked me to explain the condition of the patient and what I was going to do to the students. He had got the consent of the patient's family in advance. The picture shows the scene.
     All the students didn't know what the vegetative state was. It looked like they were shook up to see the patient. They were also showed the operation room, a few X-ray related rooms, the pharmaceutical facilities, rehabilitation department, , , . I thought this day would be strongly imprinted on their minds.