After a day filled with exhausting and challenging surgeries, one returns home in the evening. The children and the lady of the house have already gone to bed. It is said, ‘Let me have a fatigue-relief tea so that my day is not only spent at the hospital but also at home,’ but the tea remains untouched, boiling. Sleep seems even sweeter… Before dawn, the phone rings. An urgent patient is seeking healing. The family breakfast with the children and the lady has been canceled. This is not once a month, but five, ten times…
During shifts in the emergency room, all kinds of people come, all sick, full of negative energy, looking into your eyes to get better. They all need your energy. Be careful, first you find the disease, then you give the treatment and follow up. You give morale boost not only to the patient but also to their relatives. When you return home from shifts, there is nothing left for you or your family. But they know the situation, they are used to your world now… Children grow up without seeing their father, there is no weekend or holiday for this job.
Obstetricians, Orthopedists, Anesthesiologists and Internists go to bed thinking about their patients and wake up thinking about them. What else can I do ? The doctor keeps asking what else she should have done. The body is always in one place, the head is always in another.
They all compete with the technology that is updated day by day, the questions of what is new, what kind of patients can be treated easier and faster, what treatment I would like are always researched, and they want to contribute to science and practical business life…
They are all smart and intellectual minds… Being a team leader is also very enjoyable, they make you forget the difficulties. You learn new things from each of them. There are ambitious ones, artistic ones, pleasant conversationalists and formal ones…
However, they all agree on one point: LOVE!
As my team, I am happy to have a group that acts with the awareness that health is an innate right for people and humanity, attaches importance to ethical and deontological values, and works with the principle of “human first, patient first”, regardless of the difficulty of the disease.
Student, Assistant, Specialist, Associate Professor, Professor… Even after reaching a certain position, the most satisfying thing for these altruists who struggle day and night to save people from diseases and make this their philosophy of life throughout their lives is; Again, it is the recovery of the patients and their discharge with healing. Thanks to my colleagues who “blindly” rush to this goal, our most important asset, our HEALTH, and therefore our future, is protected.
So glad to have you!
Prof. Dr. Necati Çanakçı
Medical Director