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I went to Borders to reward myself for accomplishing a task (that task should have been done days ago...but you know how the summer sun beckons one outside), and bought a couple of FANTASTIC books.
One, which I shall provide a quote from, is called Letters to a Young Doctor, by Richard Selzer. The man, heralding from a line of doctors and being a surgeon himself, wrote very eloquently to all of the aspiring doctors of the world (that's US!!!).
There's absolutely beautiful quotes and metaphors about surgery, but to please the writhing masses, I thought we could all appreciate this one:
"Some people live their whole lives within earshot of bells. As though it were the sound of those bells, the chiming, that were necessary to life, an essential element like oxygen. But you have chosen to live out your life within the sound of sirens, and page operators and cardiac monitors. To be on duty in an Emergency Room and to hear the sound of a siren is to listen to the gathering of a storm, or a battle growing nearby. Soon, you know, you will be fully engaged. It is a sound that, even now, after so many years, causes me to tremble. There will be days when you will regret that you chose sirens over bells. At such times you will hate the hospital with its Emergency Room and its Operating Room and its Morgue. What a far cry from the lamplit hut of your boyhood dreams, with outside a raging snowstorm, and inside a lovely fire in a grate. Here the storm is likely to whirl through the premises. The wolves know the way in, too. All the same, you will know that this hospital is your bones and your breath, without which you cannot live."
So...any of you read any books that we should be aware of?
One, which I shall provide a quote from, is called Letters to a Young Doctor, by Richard Selzer. The man, heralding from a line of doctors and being a surgeon himself, wrote very eloquently to all of the aspiring doctors of the world (that's US!!!).
There's absolutely beautiful quotes and metaphors about surgery, but to please the writhing masses, I thought we could all appreciate this one:
"Some people live their whole lives within earshot of bells. As though it were the sound of those bells, the chiming, that were necessary to life, an essential element like oxygen. But you have chosen to live out your life within the sound of sirens, and page operators and cardiac monitors. To be on duty in an Emergency Room and to hear the sound of a siren is to listen to the gathering of a storm, or a battle growing nearby. Soon, you know, you will be fully engaged. It is a sound that, even now, after so many years, causes me to tremble. There will be days when you will regret that you chose sirens over bells. At such times you will hate the hospital with its Emergency Room and its Operating Room and its Morgue. What a far cry from the lamplit hut of your boyhood dreams, with outside a raging snowstorm, and inside a lovely fire in a grate. Here the storm is likely to whirl through the premises. The wolves know the way in, too. All the same, you will know that this hospital is your bones and your breath, without which you cannot live."
So...any of you read any books that we should be aware of?
