Their job is to care for people to life and death, in situations that are sometimes so demanding that it seems impossible to understand for an outsider. Humans of Medpeople is an initiative that wants to show the efforts of the healthcare professionals, by providing short stories from people working in the business. The stories can be an experience, a reflection or a feeling that comes up in a special context.
Marcus – Nurse
I work as a specialist nurse at the neonatal unit at Sachsska Children’s and Youth Hospital. In this ward we get babies born in week 27 or later. The most common reason babies...
Sofia – Nurse
There’s one thing that I’ve been thinking about a lot and that’s why I exactly do what I do. To be part of a person’s worst day in life and turn it into the best one. It is not...
Camilla – Midwife
As a child, the most important thing for me was becoming a mother. Ever since I found out that you yourself could make baby’s, I wanted one of my own. As soon as I met my...
Nayla – Doctor
I was 16 years old when the civil war in Lebanon was at its worst. I can say that my love for medicine was born then. I worked as a volunteer and had to vaccinate children in the...
Johan – Nurse
Working at the intensive care unit is actually exactly as it sounds. Intensive. The days can go from zero to a hundred. Most of the time dramatic things happen. Last week, for...
Aleksandar – Doctor
All my friends from high school planned to study at university. I had good grades and was the first to perhaps become an architect. But a friend said to me, ‘Oh, forget about...
Barbro – Nurse
I have worked as a nurse and a nursing teacher for more than fifty years. Now I’m retired but I often think back to my professional life. I spent most of my time on the...
Erik – Doctor
I don’t know if it’s an afterthought, but I have memories of promises I made to become a doctor after my mother’s brain haemorrhage. My mother didn’t remember my name, her eyes...
Jonas – Nurse
One case I often think about is really not that dramatic, but it’s more because of an emotional connection. I work as an anesthesia nurse at NKS neurooperation. There I came into...
Barbro – Doctor
My father was a cinematographer who made many films, including ones about refugees in Algeria and Hongkong. In this way, I as a child became interested in other nationalities. I...