Ordinary People's Miracles (eBook)

Pinhas Dannon (Autor)

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2018 | 1. Auflage
228 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-010133-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This is the journey of Alex, Dr Cohen is a psychiatrist at the Jerusalem Mental Health Center. He checks a patient at the ER unit and starts to treat him at outpatient clinics. But the patient become a guide for him. Alex learns the different paths and perspectives in his life. And experiences to help people ratmer than being a physician...

Alex's journey is written by a professor of psychiatry that treats people more than twenty years and serves a pysician more than twenty five years. 

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CHAPTER ONE

 

 

Rain drops were hitting the ceiling of the room where Alex was sitting. Alex, doctor Cohen, was on duty at the emergency service of the Jerusalem Mental Health Hospital. He had placed his chair nearby the window and was listening to the noise of fast passing by cars. Cars were used to spashing the mass of water as they were going on their ways. It was amusing to listen them... “I wouldn’t like to be outside in such a bad weather” said to himself. All of a sudden, the whole magic was disappeared. Alex heard the wail of approachig car sirens and he was irritated. The peaceful night was over. “Police car” he murmured to himself, and then “What type of incident have they brought to me?” he said in a louder tone. Which patient had escaped from the hospital in such a rainy and depressing weather or started to disturb the prayers in holy places? In Jerusalem, every week, at least one patient would wander around claiming to be the messiah and would be brought to the hospital by the police when he started to disturb other people around. ‘This is the permanent scene of Jerusalem’ he thought, ‘Religious obsessions are probably much less in Russia than in this country.’

Russia, the country that he was born! The only thing he missed from his country was snow. If only it snowed a little bit here in this country! Instead of snow, it was raining as if it wouldn’t stop. Suddenly, he recalled his childhood when he used to play snowball with his friends in the streets. ‘It was good’ he said to himself ‘How happy I was...’

At that moment, the door was knocked firmly. The nurse on duty came in without waiting for a reply and said ‘Doctor! We have a new Messiah!’ The police has brought him. He had no identity card and he refused to talk to the police. Could you please come to the second treatment room to examine him?’

“I’ll be there in a few minutes” said Alex. As he was putting on his white apron, he asked

“Is the patient calm?”

“At least for now, he is calm” said the nurse.

“If so, please ask the police to take his handcuffs off?”

“Doctor, I don’t recommend the handcuffs to be taken off without seeing him.”

“I understand your suspicions but this man is not an ordinary man and probablly he is our patient. He didn’t give any harm to anybody. It doesn’t make any sense to put him under an unnecessary trouble and stress.”

“Allright doctor, it is up to you...”

Alex adjusted a white apron. Generally, he wasn’t used to wandering around in apron but this time he decided to wear it to let the patient feel at ease and to reduce his anxiety. Then, he slowly moved towards the waiting room. The patient was under the supervision of two policemen and a nurse. His handcuffs hadn’t been taken off.

Alex turned to the policemen and the patient and said “I’m Doctor Cohen. Please take off the handcuffs and put this gentleman into the second room. There is no need for you to be with us during our interview and you can wait outside. I don’t think that this gentleman has an idea of escaping and I’m sure he will not give any harm to me. Thank you...”

The policemen unvoluntarily did what Alex wanted. The patient was seated and his handcuffs were taken off. One of the policemen warned the man “We are waiting outside. Don’t act stupidly.” Then the policemen let Alex enter the room to sit down on the chair opposite the patient and closed the door. Alex sit to his chair and asked from the man also be seated near by him. After he took the empty file of him said hello…

The guy answered “Hello Doctor... and added even without taking a breath:

Please do not interrupt my speech doc and listen to me! Now you are sitting there and looking at me, and you want to evaluate my mental situation. Probablly you believe that I am definately like other lunatics that you saw before... Well, whatever it may be, you are the doctor. Naturally you have to examine me...”

After a short while of silence “Well” he said “What were we talking about? Yes, you have to examine me and decide whether I am deeply ill or not. Of course after your exam you have to inform the police if I will do the weird things in the future! Also, what I did before was related to a mental disorder or not. Thus, both you and the policemen can get rid of me as soon as possible.”

Doctor Cohen stared at the man sitting in front of him with a peaceful impression on his face. Then he responded his speech and asked “I really want to find out if these things you have done are related to the belief you have about your being the Messiah. Could you please tell me what has happened?”

The man sitting in front of the doctor was at the end of his 20s. He had wet clothes because of the rain and he had a hospital jacket on him which were given to him to keep him warm. He had long and untidy hair. There was nothing special on his face except for a scar trace over his right eye brow. His eyes, his turquoise blue eyes were special. His eyes which, were, examining the one in front of him with sharp and piercing, they were the most striking part of his face.

“Who is there behind these eyes?” asked Alex to himself. Because this man could be a sick, a patient who believed what he fanatically did is true. “These type of fanatics were the most dangerous type of them.” he muttered “As they believe their mission, they don’t want to accept that they have psychiatric problems. Therefore, they don’t permit us to cure. In this case there is nothing to do except for underaking a supervision and inform the sentinel court...”

The patient, Adam, his name was this. That didn’t have an identity card or a document which could introduce him to the others. He had suddenly appeared oposite the Wailing Wall and he started to yell to invite people to the faith and to the right course. Generally, these type of people wouldn’t draw attention too much but this time as he performed the same type of behaviour not only at the Wailing Wall, also in the EL-Kuds mosque and in the Holly Specture church, which had been established in the place where Jesus Christ was crucified and interrupted the people who came to pray, he was brought to the police station. The end of all Messiahs and the ones who claimed that they were Messiah was to be sent to the Mental Health Center on duty from the police station. Here, Adam was in front of the doctor in the emergency room of the hospital. The handcuffs were taken off but two policemen were waiting for his interview’s end behind the closed doors.

Doctor Cohen started to summarise the situation in short sentences. He said “You are really at the Jerusalem Mental Disorder Hospital’s emergency service. Police wants me to decide on the subject of your being mentally ill or not. In my view, it is impossible to make a decision depending on an half an hour interview. My proposal is this; if you stay at one of the hospital departments, under the supervision for a week, our experts can make a decision. Thus, we can present an expert report to the sentinel court who arrested you. If you don’t accept this I will have to send you back to the custodial prison with these policemen...”

After a short period of silence, Adam gazed into Doctor Cohen’s eyes and started to talk. “Doctor do you really think that I will be taken to the custodial prison? Both of us know that you are going to write in your report that I am sick and I did not want to be cured. As I have not been found dangerous, I will be released in 2 or 3 hours at the sentinel court on condition that I will start to recieve treatment from the outpatient clinic, and will be forbidden to approach the holy places. After being released, I will have to make an appointment at the outpatient clinic and normally I will do it. Now I ask from you to be my doctor. Could you make an appointment if it is possible?”

Doctor nodded and asked “Adam, as far as I can see you are well experienced about what should be done. Did you have such an experience before that?”

“ No, this is the most rationalist solution but you have not given an answer yet. Is it possible for me to make an appointment on one of the days you accept patients?”

Doctor Cohen was in silence for a moment and he thought. Then he turned to Adam and said “Yes, on condition that you accept my treatment and take your pills, if necessary, if I prove that your ideas and beliefs are wrong...”

The man smiled and said “Allright Doctor, I know that you want to give me medicine. Who is going to convince first, you or me, we will see? By the way, please take care of the shelf which is keeping the files. It may drop on you and hurt you and I don’t want to see it. After all we have an appointment...”

The doctor invited the policemen on the intercom and after sending Adam out he summarised in few sentences to the policemen “Adam thinks that he is the Messiah. He refused to stay at the hospital. If you take him to the sentinel court, and then send him to the outpatient clinic he will accept the treatment. It seems as if he knows the procedures. Thus, the best course of action for him is to attend my appoinments to get a treatment and then I can present my report to the court.”

One of the policemen turned to the doctor and said “This man is a little bit weird. While we were driving to the hospital, he saw the car collision before it happened and he warned us. We were going to crash but we got rid of it. Is he really that sick? Are you sure?”

“Of course, I am sure! However, under any circumstances, I have to talk with him and I have to prove that his belief is wrong so that I can cure him. Because of...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.8.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• ISBN-10: 0-00-010133-8 / 0000101338
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-010133-4 / 9780000101334