Somehow, in medical, there is this term used very much.
Jonah.
"This guy very jonah lah!" "That lady super jonah wan lah.."
It's not exactly new, but many medical personnel somehow took a quick affinity to the word. Without knowing who is this fella named Jonah.
Of course, I'm sure the Christians would know.
Jonah is one of the prophet mentioned in the Old Testament in the bible. The word Jonah is from Hebrew origin, hence from the Jews (Or more appropriately the Semitic language). One can argue the origin here, but that's besides the point here. The question is, why Jonah? Not any other prophet?
I'm sure anyone who had read the story would have known about him being swallowed up by the whale. The famous act of all time, apart from dividing the seas or even walking on water.
Jonah is a prophet who was supposedly ordered by God to prophesize the impending doom of a wicked city, but he went the other way around to flee from his "duty", in which he boarded a ship away from the designated mission.
While boarding the ship, all sorts of disaster follows through. Everyone on board was trying to save the ship but to no avail. It was all due to that one single "unlucky" person on board who had earned the wrath of God. Jonah himself. Jonah finally realized it and even stepped out to volunteered to be thrown off board. The crew hesitated, and tried all methods, but they finally resort to throw Jonah off the ship into the sea. It was then right after that the storm calmed down and the ship was saved from the disaster.
And it was then that Jonah was swallowed wholely by a whale and the biblical story continued thereafter.
And so, Jonah was the one to be blamed for all the mishap. Admission of numerous patients to any ward is considered a mishap by medical personnel due to the workload. When an individual had been singled out to have cause such incidence by luck almost everytime, he or she would have qualify as "Jonah".
But I'm not into superstition. It's all humor after all.
But just to reiterate one more thing. There is a Malay translation for the word Jonah. Yes, anything in the bible's Old Testament would most likely be in al-Quran. Prophet Jonah is indeed Nabi Yunus.
Not that I have any strong conviction for religion, but I do know that some would prefer not to speak of the names of their prophets as freely as that. I'm just curious if those who mention it are aware of their deeds or are just plain ignorant.
Beats me. But curiosity may not necessarily be a good thing. :P
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