Comments on: A RAINBOW INSIDE

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

By: scott

scott — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:13:16 +0000

Rachel, you are far too young and pretty to be in an ICU. Glad you recovered.

Syncen, thank you for your comments. I do question it a lot. You only need one difficult (as in mean and manipulative) patient/family a year to make you feel sick of it all for most of the rest of that year. I haven’t really written about winners past years because I try to forget. I try to help my patients but that is clearly not enough for some people.

By: syncen

syncen — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:54:06 +0000

I always wanted to be a doctor, but I am not one. Then, when I read you, I enjoy it and wish I were a doctor.

However, when you question being a doctor, makes us mortals (or at least me) think, maybe it is good I am not a doctor.

That, is the truth.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:08:44 +0000

Yeah, I had a bunch of clots in my lungs from an oral contraceptive I had recently started. Spent two weeks in ICU, missed over a month of school and spent 6 months in therapy.

Yeah, ya are brave, autopsies aside. Don’t be humble!

By: scott

scott — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:10:18 +0000

Hey Al3×0rz! Yeah, that was Michigan the day I posted this entry. Today, the snow is melted again. The kids were playing outside like it was actually … spring.

By: da-yung

da-yung — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:51 +0000

skott! is that pic michigan??? it snowed like a mother! geeze…i miss it

hope all is well

By: scott

scott — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:04:52 +0000

Aein, we pretty much stick to nuggets and apple slices when we get McDonald’s for the kids. I like to believe they are a little less unhealthy than burgers. They do love their nuggets.

Cindy, if a crime is suspected, I presume the police usually get an autopsy. In the hospital, if a patient dies within 24 hours of arrival, an autopsy is required. Families tend to think autopsies are just for determining cause of death for legal or suing purposes, but that’s not so. We tell them they are good for knowing family history that might not have been uncovered yet. They are also educational sometimes but that’s not a tactful point to bring up.

By: cyn

cyn — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:52:04 +0000

scott, i was in the psych ward, so um…
not a barrel of monkeys the vets there.

out of curiosity (as a novelist and all ;*)
can only family request autopsies? or can
police and such if the death is suspicious?