There are
two faces that are very familiar to those of us who visit the Main Campus Health Center
often. They are like disease-busters who help protect us from illness.
A graduate of the Hacettepe School of Nursing, Yüksel Dur has been working at Bilkent
since the university was founded. In those years, the university had only 350 students,
but from then on up to now, at least one thing has remained the same: students' reliance
on the health center to help them with all sorts of medical problems at all hours of the
day and night. For instance, Nurse Dur remembers the time that a student called in the
middle of the night with an "emergency"-- a pimple that had suddenly appeared on
her face. Another student brought a pet hamster to the health center because it had
swallowed a piece of cotton. Yet, even with all the strange requests and difficulties
involved, Yüksel Dur very much enjoys working with Bilkent students.
A graduate of the Ankara University School of Nursing, Fadim Keçeci joined Bilkent in
1992. Having been at Bilkent for 13 years, she of course has many memories about her
experiences with students. At first, she had trouble with students who wanted medical
reports to excuse them from classes or exams. Some students even came to the health center
with full makeup and perfect hairdos while at the same time attempting to appear very
sick! Of course, Nurse Keçeci never gave such students medical excuses. The students
eventually learned that taking makeup exams is just as difficult as taking regular exams,
and stopped asking for medical excuses. Like her colleague, Fadim Keçeci is very happy to
work with young people and happy to be part of Bilkent University.
"She
remembers the time that a student brought a pet hamster to the health center because it
had swallowed a piece of cotton..."
Gülay
Acar (COMD/II)
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