When it becomes more important to state 'why' you do something

If you ask 100 occupational therapists what they do you will get 100 different answers, because the nature of the profession is to help people do the things that are important to them.  Every patient has their own priorities, and that makes all the stories different.Instead of focusing on the 'what' I like to focus on the 'why.'  When I need to be reminded 'why' I do what I do I like to drag this story out. I knew a young family and they were unable to conceive.  After spending many thousands of dollars they made some arrangement with a young teenage mom so that they could adopt her baby (just about to be born).So they go to get the baby and sign all the papers and get on the plane.  The baby was only a couple days old. On the way back home the baby goes into cardiac arrest and the new mom (a trained health care professional) gives this new baby rescue breathing and chest compressions. They are admitted directly into the intensive care unit when they get off the plane.It turns out that the baby had several STDs: syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, plus other bad infections including CMV - any of which could be deadly in a newborn. If that wasn't enough the baby had a poorly developed liver and developed a condition called necrotizing enterocolitis - they had to take out most of her small intestine as it had died inside her. They also put in a feeding tube and a tracheostomy (the baby's lungs were underdeveloped too and she couldn't breathe except with a ventil...
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