Comments on: Volunteering At The Cancer Institute

By: Poyt

Poyt — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:15:33 +0000

Hospital smell is not that offensive or scary, but seeing decrepit bodies might send me to the washroom. But, time well spent, Benj!

By: benj

benj — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:06:01 +0000

Helga: He didn’t look human.

Nicest Girl: Well, in the end, it’s great to help people. The question is, is what you’re doing helping them at all? That’s a question I often ask when caring for terminal patients.

Martin: House wouldn’t be there. He only sticks around until the diagnosis is clinched. Cancer patients already a designed management plan. House is just in it for the whole brainstorming part.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:28:07 +0000

Hmm. Makes me wonder what House would do in that situation.

Anyway, nice work.

By: Nicest Girl

Nicest Girl — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:38:18 +0000

I couldn’t do what you do. I guess you could say that I hate seeing sick people so much that I stay as far away as possible. I just don’t know how to handle myself around them. Not one of those people that can keep a smile on my face while people around me are suffering… probably just make them feel creeped out. I’d never want to be the last person a terminally ill person saw because they would end up dying thinking “Well… that was effing awkward…”

Keep up the good work!

By: Helga

Helga — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:15:39 +0000

For my junior year Theology class, I “volunteered” at PCMC. There wasn’t really much to do at the hospice, so we were instructed to do rounds and visit the kids in the rooms. I met this kid who had leukemia. At least I thought he was a kid; turns out, he was 19 and was already in college when he had to be hospitalized. He looked like he was 11. How old did James look like?