Hippocrates In San Diego

Welcome, Baby C.

Please, I implore you

When working in a nursing home, and encountering a little old lady who has fallen over and turned blue, please make sure she doesn’t have a pulse before you start pounding on her chest like a gorilla throwing a temper tantrum. She’s liable to break a rib that way!

Don’t make me twist your arm…

Don’t ever lie to your doctor. I can tell when you’re lying and I usually know why you are lying. There are few things that will make providing good care more difficult than a dishonest patient.

It can suck

You have to think about what you’re doing every single day. There’s rarely a time when you can be lax, or not care about the quality of your work, or ignore its results. And that is true whether you’re tired, ill, distracted, or bored. That’s why it can suck sometimes. Why somedays you wonder if people slinging coffee at Starbucks or fixing cars have to be on all the time, “bringing their A Game” every day. I’m sure most do routinely, but do they have to? Do they feel the same obligation? Right now an occasional day requiring only my B Game sounds fantastic. I’m envious.

Clean

That was somewhat liberating, although a little sad. Sometimes you have to just separate from things that you’re drawn to when you realize how bad they are for you.

Happy New Year!

All the best to you in the coming year. Especially if you’re reading this — I’m not convinced there’s anyone out there to see it.