The pandemic helps to see
what is useful and what we thought it was. People have died because of believing in useless
theories about performance; the concept of a good doctor versus a bad one. A doctor who had good grade at school does
not mean much if he/she is unable to perform practicing. A good doctor in times of COVID 19 should be
effective regardless of grades and we see it clearly now; it is more about
being passionate to the profession to be able to face the unknown without
much fear and with willingness to perform well.
Fear was the first thing doctors experienced in front of the pandemic. Patients
should not die from COVID the way it has happened because of our fear that paralyzed
us. The use of steroid and other medications to treat COVID patients is an art
based on a lot of experience with just a little bit of theory. Things were very novel and we needed to be
guided by our experience; our instinct that developed over many years of seeing
patient as mysteries. Boris Pasternak’s
master novel, Dr. Zhivago, is about that.
Performance in triathlon is about the passion for the sport. Pasternak said the following about revolutionary
Russians:
They don't in any way measure up to their
exalted calling. In fact, they've fallen short of it but – difficult as it is
for me to understand – a modern sophist might say
that these last years have actually demanded a reduction in conscience and
feeling in the name of greater intelligibility. Yet now the very spirit of the times demands great,
courageous purity. And these men are ruled by trivial routine. Subjectively,
they're sincere and conscientious. But I find it increasingly difficult to take
into account the personal aspect of their convictions. I'm not out on my own –
people treat me well. But all that only holds good up to a point. It seems to
me that I've reached that point.[22]
Passion for the sport is in
this young Ugandan champion: Joshua Cheptegei.
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