My first impression of Dr. Mohamed Abd El Mabood wasn't quiet interesting, it was the end of out tutorial class with Dr. Abd Al Aziz the head of the department and after his tutorial session was a clinical session. Someone knocked the door and greeted Dr. Abd Al Aziz, Dr. Abd Al Aziz asks him if he would give us the clinical session he says yes, so Dr. Abd Al Aziz tells him: give them a 15 mins break before you start and he replies: but i don't want to give them any breaks! and that's what happened, just after the very rich tutorial session Dr. Abd El Mabood comes to give us the clinical session, back to that moment i didn't know he was Dr. Abd Al Mabood.
Then he came to give us a tutorial class about The Retina, people as usual are coming late than they should come and he says that those that come on time and get ready for their lecture are those who would be good doctors, always there when patients need them and always ready to help them, and those who don't will be in the next room chatting with a friend and he won't be ready to act as soon as he should. Then still students are coming late, so he says, there is a doctor who would be there in time and there is an undertaker (referring to the late students) who would come after the patient has already passed away. still students are coming late so he says with that smile that rarely leaves his face: and there is a reciter, who would come 40 days after the patient has already passed away, and there is someone who won't even show up and would be in his home at the moment the patient needs him. Actually that day i felt that it did pay off waking up early and taking my one hour public transportation to come early and sit prepared waiting for my professor. It is the feeling of reward that was missing and so many students aren't pro being on time this days, they are punished for being late and feel obligated towards it which is the true but yet they aren't rewarded and they don't feel treated the same as most professors come really late making us waiting and mostly wasting our time!
Someone wanted to ask a question and hesitated, when it was asked we kinda felt it was somehow a silly question to ask, so Dr. Mohamed said: the one who asks a silly a question is better than the one who have an important question and not asking it. He also said:ليس من الضرر ان نبدو حمقى لأننا بالفعل حمقى there is no harm to look like a fool because we are already fools, including me (pointing his finger to himself!).
Talking about medical competence, He says that is essential to have the knowledge in order to take action, he quoted Aristotle when he said:اعطني مكانا اقف عليه و سارفع لك العالم كله give me a ground to stand upon and I will left the whole world for you. He said that generally, a 60%-80% performance in most careers is enough, but in our career, the performance must be 100%. However, he said that patients and their families don't want from us to do miracles or to resurrect the dead, they just want us to do our best to preserve their lives. He also asked us that sometimes we aren't qualified enough to take actions, if so, we will have to call for help and he insisted so much on it, when he said that he gave some examples as laryngotomy and paracetesis!Then he came to give us a tutorial class about The Retina, people as usual are coming late than they should come and he says that those that come on time and get ready for their lecture are those who would be good doctors, always there when patients need them and always ready to help them, and those who don't will be in the next room chatting with a friend and he won't be ready to act as soon as he should. Then still students are coming late, so he says, there is a doctor who would be there in time and there is an undertaker (referring to the late students) who would come after the patient has already passed away. still students are coming late so he says with that smile that rarely leaves his face: and there is a reciter, who would come 40 days after the patient has already passed away, and there is someone who won't even show up and would be in his home at the moment the patient needs him. Actually that day i felt that it did pay off waking up early and taking my one hour public transportation to come early and sit prepared waiting for my professor. It is the feeling of reward that was missing and so many students aren't pro being on time this days, they are punished for being late and feel obligated towards it which is the true but yet they aren't rewarded and they don't feel treated the same as most professors come really late making us waiting and mostly wasting our time!
Someone wanted to ask a question and hesitated, when it was asked we kinda felt it was somehow a silly question to ask, so Dr. Mohamed said: the one who asks a silly a question is better than the one who have an important question and not asking it. He also said:ليس من الضرر ان نبدو حمقى لأننا بالفعل حمقى there is no harm to look like a fool because we are already fools, including me (pointing his finger to himself!).
He keeps teaching us and explaining stuff and when he asks about something he has just explained he finds most of the students not going along with him kinda lost, so he says: It is the difference between feeling and comprehending (Or perception!) انه الفرق بين الاحساس و الادراك. He explains saying, we are sitting here, recieving all that visual and auditory stimuli but when coming to understanding what they mean or what were they emitted for we have nothing, brains are off.
Last lecture, he was training us on how to elicit physical signs, we had a patient with us in the room that was to be examined at the end of the lecture. The patient was kinda worried and asked the doctor to leave to get her grandchild, he said it is ok, then he told us that when we give the patient the choice, he chooses us. He said it is unnecessary to pick on the patient and keep telling him or her that we are in a teaching hospital and that he or she must be checked and must wait and and and. And he was right, the patient got her child and got back, she left later anyway for an operation she had to make!
Dr. Mohamed Abd El Mabood, Thanks for being my teacher, it was truly an honor to learn from you, I wish one day you hear or read my name and say that was my student, nothing hurts me more in life than letting my amazing professors down by my bad performance and grades, till I see you again isA.
Sincerely your student
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