Comments on: A RAINBOW INSIDE

By: scott

scott — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:08:15 +0000

Thanks Jade, this was my favorite post to write all year. Now I know what nutmeg is too!

By: Jade Park

Jade Park — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:12:40 +0000

LOVE this post, so much. i’m obsessed with gall bladders and bile and this was also like an episode of House! Except if House had way more empathy and humanity.

A Famous writing mentor of mine once said (as a metaphor for writing and such) that hospitals are designed to hide 2 things: the laundry and the dead bodies.

(btw ground nutmeg looks like cinnamon, only a touch darker…whole nutmeg is round the size of a big hazelnut and it looks like a round wooden ball..like a cedar ball only darker)

By: syncen

syncen — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:33:47 +0000

Scott, I hope, for your sake, you have some job satisfaction. I never thought anyone needed it, but you really do.

Take up golf, it is fun!

By: scott

scott — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:59:46 +0000

Gary, that’s funny because I had a bad reaction to formaldehyde too during anatomy in medschool – formaldehyde makes my eyes burn! I didn’t get to dissect nearly as much as I liked because I couldn’t see after half a minute. The good thing is that they don’t use formaldehyde pre-autopsy. I don’t know if it is part of the embalming process after though.

Ah, the body count. Yeah, I think the number was 100, which I surpassed at the prior hospital I worked at (The Empire). No, I haven’t been keeping track. Although if I was, there would be a +1 by this weekend. I’ve done my self-re-evaluation though. I’m staying, at least for family security sake if not job satisfaction.

By: gary1970

gary1970 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:51:49 +0000

I did not want to be a physician (and surely not a surgeon!), and this was confirmed to me in grad school when I fainted from the formaldehyde fumes in a morgue that I was visiting for a pathology “show and tell”

You are clearly much better equipped for the profession (regardless of your feelings about being on call in your next post)

Are you still keeping a body count? I recall a pledge in your earlier online journal about re-evaluating your life at a predetermined number