Medicine Behind The Headlines
Violence, especially against women and children is currently on the surge. Humanity has lost its humane nature, man has become beastly in his actions.
Every week at least an incident, if not two, strikes the headlines of Tv stations and dominates social media, “A missing grade 9 girl‘s body discovered by residents,assaulted and dumped in a culvert with signs of strangulation.” , a boy has been killed, a woman has been butchered. The biodata changes but the brutality remains the same.
As a society we’ve become accustomed to viewing the victims as numbers, as statistics, as court proceedings. Yet behind the statistic, is a human being, someone’s beloved child, a best friend, a devoted mother, someone’s entire world.
It is bad, Put Stone! Put Stone! (Insert Oburu’s Voice)
Reducing humans to numbers kills our empathy as it makes it easier to ignore suffering and justify cruelty. It obscures their real story, their real feelings and struggles.Because, behind every statistic is a story, behind every case file is life altered, forever.
Today, as we integrate Medicine Behind The Headlines, may we remember the stories, the faces behind the numbers and may that remembrance inspire not only understanding but also a will to act.
To know and not to do, is really not to know ~Stephen Covey, The 8th Habit.
We focus on how the effects of the violence extend far beyond the immediate act to, permanent physical injuries, psychological anxiety, depression, post-traumatic injuries and fear which grips their hearts long after visible injuries fade.
We look at how families are torn apart, how communities lose their sense of safety and how health systems can only treat but not heal the aftermath.
We remind ourselves that medicine is not only about disease and treatments but also about understanding and responding to the human suffering behind the statistics.
But then, even in the face of such grim realities, despair not, for their is still room for compassion, their is still room for justice and most importantly their is still room for hope, just as we are reminded in the good books.
And just as their are flowers upon thistles, their are thorns covered with roses.This is a message from nature that though the world is fallen, its not all sorrow and misery. Their is still hope.~Ellen.G WHITE, Steps to Christ
I love this
I relate to both sides and yes, let’s pray more and more for we are living in an era where there is a new, not-so-new, evil in our generation.
The sad part is with every new generation there’s always a surge of new, not-so-new, evil