Hospital Gossip
This is an AI translation, pending the author’s review.
Doctors have a very bad habit… talking about “cases” at every hour of the day.
In the MO room, in the canteen, over dinner with a whole group of us. And when we talk, we get completely absorbed, painting the whole vivid picture. I wonder whether the other diners lose their appetite… That we haven’t yet been thrown out by the waiters counts as luck.
When doctors talk cases, they inevitably talk about people too: nurses, other MOs. Where people work together there will always be differences of opinion and of viewpoint. Doctors gossip about nurses: that sister is the most annoying, that one calls you about every little thing… Nurses, in turn, like to say which doctor always has a “black face”, which doctor is careless…
That is understandable. A little gossip can be a way of letting off steam, as long as it doesn’t turn into personal attacks, as long as right and wrong aren’t blurred…
As Christians, we have a responsibility to be light and to be salt… to put an end to gossip and to spread the news of peace. Better to gossip as little as possible.