What My Patients Say

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" Oh, Doctor. You don't know how sad my heart is. You're supposed to heal me, and now you've broken my heart. Now I need a cardiologist .

Today you didn't show up for our 9:00 a.m. appointment, so you have a $50 no-show fee and for not canceling the appointment 24 hours in advance .

I'm here trying to lighten the mood so I don't get sentimental because this is really bad, as we say in Puerto Rico. I've been writing this message all day.

I just want to tell you that it's very hard and very sad for me to know that you won't be my doctor anymore. That I won't see you again. That there will be no more scolding. I'm not easy to understand, nor easy to treat. I must have given you a couple of headaches when I stopped taking my cholesterol medication. In fact! I was prepared for another scolding today because I changed the way I took my cholesterol to three times a week (as if I were the doctor), and my cholesterol went up a little again. But I wasn't prepared for the news that I wouldn't be seeing you again. I preferred the scolding a thousand times over.

You weren't just my primary care doctor. You were my psychologist, my motivator, my handkerchief, the voice of my conscience, and much more. I know that with so many patients, you may not remember all the details, but you even helped me heal emotionally. Not just the physical pain, not just the symptoms of some illness. One day, you healed my heart. You just looked at me and asked me about my childhood and told me that I wasn't crying just because of the pain in my leg, that I was more emotionally affected. And I collapsed. I didn't understand how he could see that in me. But then I learned that God used him to heal that area of my life. That's when I realized my doctor isn't a doctor by profession.
He's a doctor by vocation and by heart. Not even my psychiatrist,   who treated me for 14 years before retiring, knew about that childhood trauma.
Putting selfishness aside and now thinking of you, I want to tell you that I believe in divine processes. There are times in our lives when we put off important decisions for various reasons. Insecurity, instability, finances, flexibility, time... But God will never let us go so far that we later regret not having made that decision sooner. So I know that within all of this, God has put His hand in and is doing His will for your benefit. We ask God for what we want, and He grants it in His time, but if He doesn't, it's because He has something better for us. So, you have worked very hard with great honesty, responsibility, and heart, and that is worth a lot. God will give you what you deserve. You don't have to settle for the price others put on you. 

Your value comes from heaven. From your Creator. From the One who conceived and designed you. 

So you will always be valued and blessed."