As a pediatrician working in a tertiary hospital in an urban South African setting, I have often heard my junior colleagues comment on the fact that a child’s mother is not present at their bedside.
This statement, usually uttered by carefree doctors who have yet to have a family of their own, is laden with judgement, as though it is unfathomable that a mother would leave her sick child, even for a moment, other than for selfish reasons. What they may be shocked to discover, if they took the time to engage with parents beyond muttering a cursory, “how are you?”, is that these mothers are far from selfish.
For the past 130 years, since the early urbanisation of South…
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At the end of the school year and a mother asked his son if the exam questions were difficult. And he answers her saying “They weren’t bad at all,” it was the answers that gave me all the trouble.
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Fun South African Fact: An approximate of 20% of the world’s gold is mined in South Africa.