Hospital Persuasive Speech

There is nothing better than seeing a smile transform a frown. Our shift is coming to an end, and we sit on the counters of a cramped room in the basement of a hospital. We laugh and joke around, creating in one night, enough inside jokes to last a lifetime. Our best florists open the flower-filled storage and begin the task of forming two modest vases. These vases are not for us, nor are they for sale. Once finished, they will be brought upstairs and presented to a patient. The expertly prepared vase a gift, in the hopes of making a stay in the hospital a little less bleak. This is our way of spending our time after we finish our tasks. Our way of finishing out the two hours of visiting patients, replacing linens, helping nurses, and escorting patients and families to where they need to go. Some turn their noses at spending every Tuesday night, after a long day at school, volunteering. For us, however, our work is a chance to make a patient’s life a bit brighter,give ourselves experience in the world of a medicine, and lighten the nurses’ load somewhat . To many, a hospital is cold, …show more content…
For doctors, the hardest part is sometimes not the years of medical school, or the vast amounts of debt, it 's taking these years of education, and explaining it simply to someone else. I could tell a woman that her next child may suffer from hemolytic anemia and she must have RhoGAM injection. However, it is highly unlikely that she would understand what I’m trying to convey by hemolytic let alone what a RhoGAM entails. Simply explaining to a ninety-year-old how to use the bed controls teaches us patience and understanding that many doctors won’t learn until they start medical school. As teens who wish to enter the field, this work gives us a chance to improve our social skills before it becomes a part of how we earn our