| Popis: |
Tetanus. The word has its origin in the Greek ‘teino’, stretch, and tetanus most assuredly does stretch. There can be few conditions prevalent today which so stretch the resources of patient, nurse and physician, in pain, patience and persistance. It is a terrifying disease, causing despair in the hearts of sufferer and attendant alike. In response to this fear there is a tendency to respond in one of two ways. Either one ‘runs away’ from the desperate situation, doing what one can but with a sense of hopeless detachment, admitting a loss of control or understanding. Or, while recognising that we still don’t have ‘the answer’, we allow ourselves to be stimulated by the despair of the sufferer to study the symptoms and circumstances, hoping against hope despite very many disappointments of thesis and apparent success, that we will be granted the ability to achive complete control and relief. |
