Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence has challenged the latest batch of 21 recently-graduated healthcare professionals to strive to become great and not settle for being good.
“The good physician treats the disease (but) the great physician treats the patient who has the disease,” Lawrence in her keynote address said quoting Sir William Oster, one of the founding professors of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, in the United States.
According to a release from the Ministry of Public Health, she said “I wish to encourage you to reflect deeply on your response as you prepare to provide the health services which your training abroad facilitated”.
Lawrence told the participants that currently, the country’s health-care sector is still “fraught with challenges”, but predicted that this batch of new specialists can make a difference with their devotion, care and versatility.
“Our patients are our priority. They will each come with a different story or problem, but you will be in that unique position not only to treat, but reassure them demonstrating that you care,” the Minister said.
