Doctors Must Hate Gods

Imagine that you are a surgeon. You have just worked your socks off for twenty straight hours to save someone's life. You come out of the operation theatre, to give the good news to the patient's family.

You walk up to them and tell them that their loved one is out of danger. 

You expect a shower of praises and hundreds of "thank you" and "you are amazing" and the like.

But what do you hear? "Thank God!". Or "I prayed with all my faith to the mighty Lord to spare his/her life".

I don't know about you, but if i were the surgeon, I'd be pretty pissed off at this situation. I have just toiled for hours, all to save the life of this person whom i probably wont see ever again. Instead of me getting the credit or admiration, there is this invisible, unavailable bloke who is getting thanked for my hard work.

This is my opinion and maybe most of you agree with me. It is okay with me if the patient and his family don't fawn over me or vigorously vie for my affection.

But what I cant bear is that someone else, who doesn't even exist - and even if he did, did nothing to help - is sidling in on my hardwork. In fact, it's more than sidling. He is barging in and throwing me out, hogging the limelight.

The guy who is getting credit is God. Not the doctor who diagnosed the disease or whatever it was, not the surgeon who corrected the malfunctioning, not the medicines or the person who made the medicines. That's real classy.

There is another possibility too. Maybe the doctor / surgeon is also a religious person. Maybe even they are of the belief that God was working through them, in his trademarked"mysterious ways", using the doctor as a tool to spread the magic that only he can perform. 

In which case, doctors must love Gods.

The converse though, is even more interesting. i.e, when a doctor fails to rescue the patient, and he/ she dies, who do you think gets the blame?

That's right. This time, it's the doctor. Nobody says :The Lord works in mysterious ways" this time around. What they are likely to do is to call the doctor "incompetent" or "drunk" or something along those lines. See, doctors must hate Gods.