Thursday, March 27

surgery wk 4, day 24: gastrectomy, colon resection

off at 10pm. on a NON-call day. sheesh. got pimped by dr. n.

during morning rounds, i noticed something. the population of nurses at this hospital is conspicuously different than that of other hospitals i've worked at. why is this, i don't know. all i know is, whoever is hiring is to be commended. i don't know where else you would get such a collection of cute young white nurses who seem to have come straight from the midwest. only in the movies, right?!

it really makes my day when i get a smile from one of them. i'm so easy to please. there is even one that is so physically attractive, that she looks out of place here. she literally looks like a model dressing up as a nurse.

anyway. not that i notice this sort of thiing. because my mind is actually on overdrive on taking care of my patient's, you know.

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i love ayn rand's atlas shrugged. i love it because some of the things it proposes seem very true as presented, yet contradict what i believe and live by. there seems to be conflict, and it really makes me think and challenge my faith, my way of life, and where i stand. but most of all, i love her characters. each one is so clear in my mind, like they are my personal real-life acquantances. . .

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i really don't like war. i don't know quite what to think about this one. although they keep denying it emphatically, it DOES seem like a tv war, a media war. ppl's homes are getting wrecked, soldiers are dying, and lives are being shattered while we in america argue fervently about march madness and stress about the office pool, occasionally switching to cnn (esp because they seem to churn out the same news the entire day).

no wonder the rest of the world seems to hate the US. wars are never fought on our soil. we can choose to care or not to care. for others, war comes right in their faces, whether they asked for it or not.

we pray for white ribbon day.

yakob at 1:28 AM

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