Challenges of palcement

My hospital placement has been so many things, excitement,challenging rewarding, sad, happy funny, the main thing that it has been is challenging. I am practising and expanding my medical skills and building my strength up each day, each patient brings me so much that it is hard to understand. There are alot of elderly people that are so lonely that they would happily talk to you for your entire shift. Meeting someone who is completely deaf, someone who is 90 or a patient who is terminally ill with prostate cancer. A 4 yr old or a tennager. all bring so much and each patient draws something out of me that i did not know existed. Seeing a 30 min old baby and cuddling a 4 day old and stir up so many feelings and emotions. I have been put through th ringer these past few weeks, and i know its only to build my strength up, talking to a patient for 5 mins can really brighten up their day. Bringing a little bit of light and joy to a ward is all worth the pain that it has caused me. It got me thinking that so many people are able to go to a hospital and sit talking to a patient for 30 mins. It would brighten up so many lives of the people that are stuck in the hospital in pain and bed bound. Just some of my thoughts that have crossed my mind.