Yesterday the Federal Palace, today the hospital: former national councilor is now an intern

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Ada Marra (50) kept her future plans to herself for a long time after announcing her resignation. In December 2022, the SP Councilor announced that she no longer wanted to participate in the 2023 elections. From 2007 to 2023, she represented the canton of Vaud in the National Council.

Now the former politician has entered her second professional life. She has a new job. In a guest article in the French-language Swiss magazine “Femina” she writes: “Hello, I am the pastor’s intern!” In it she talks about her new job at the hospital in Morges VD.

“My new life!”

She describes how on November 1, her first day at work, she put on the white coat and was asked in the cafeteria line: “Are you a doctor?” She sent her family and former colleagues a photo of herself with the short message: “My new life!”

Her new job certainly has parallels with her previous job as a politician. Both professions are about caring for other people so that they can live the best life possible. That’s why she will never forget the first visit she attended, Marra writes.

Listening as an important quality

She and her trainer visited a patient suffering from cancer. After several rounds of chemotherapy, the first of which was promising but later proved ineffective, they had to make a decision together. Start even more chemotherapy, even though they had to assume that this might be pointless given the man’s physical condition?

The man actually wanted nothing more. But his wife does. She was a fighter who wouldn’t give up. Four days after the conversation, the man eventually died. But this first meeting showed her that listening is one of the most important aspects of pastoral care in a hospital that reflects the diversity of society.

Big challenge

However, there are also less serious moments. Anyway, the challenge in the new job is big: going into a room to make the first contact – without ever having met this person before.

Because the hospital stay is always a forced interruption for patients, she continues in her article. And it seems to her that this time could be a means to regain control or find meaning in this forced patience. She would like to support patients in this. (oco)

Source:Blick