Reading propositions Hello everyone, I'm back in this beautiful blog to kill time in this peaceful holiday september, complications is so coveted that I spent hours turning over in bed, reading and by participating in ' meeting National Emergency. Laciando for a while 'by Emergency I wanted to propose a piece of the afterword of the book I just finished, WITH CARE (diary of a doctor decided to do better) of Atul Gawande:
My fourth advice is: "Write something." Not meant to be a hint of intimidation. It makes no difference if you write five paragraphs for a blog, an article for a magazine or a poem for a reading group. But write. No need to write something perfect. You just need to add some small observation about your world.
But do not underestimate the impact of your contribution however modest. As noted by Lewis Thomas, citing doctor John Ziman: "The invention of a mechanism for the systematic publication of" fragments "of scientific work was perhaps the key event in the history of modern science." Urging the modest contribution of many, we have put together an archive of collective Conscenza much more useful and meaningful than any individual could do alone. This is true both inside and outside the scientific world.
Nor should we underestimate the importance of the act of writing itself. Before becoming a doctor did not write, but then I discovered that I needed to do so. In its complexity, medicine is a more physical and intellectual fatigue. And since it is also the retail business, since the doctors providing their care to a person at a time, it can crush. You can take the overview of its objectives. Write you back and reflect on a problem. Even the most rabid tirade writer requires some thoughtfulness.
And above all, giving you a reflection of an audience, even to a small audience, you become part of a larger world. Throw down a few thoughts, if only in a newsletter, and soon began to wonder nervously if anyone will notice? What do you think? I said something silly? An audience is a community. The published word is a declaration of belonging to a community, as well as its willingness to make a meaningful contribution.
Therefore Choose for an audience. Write something.
Well, for those who write or read this blog, there is little on which to disagree (except to write this down in the world instead of inside the world!) for me in particular, I never stopped feeling the need to write, although unlike the author I did a lot more before joining the faculty medicine, as long as you want, either by the end of adolescence ..
fact My need is to keep writing .
Since the end of the second semester of the second year I felt I could not leave this little blog, and after having finished reading the book, Gawande think it would be really great to make it a "diary of a medical student decided to do better, "with reflections collected from an examination and the other, then maybe the" diary of an intern .. " and finally (if you can!) that of a doctor. A good project, no?
Returning to book a simple but significant review is to say that is almost all the issues we faced in five @ med , to give an idea of \u200b\u200bthe titles of the three parts into which the narrative is divided are: care, do the right thing, Ingenuity . It 'a book written for a wide audience but it is clear that affects anyone who approaches a health profession, particularly medical students (the afterword in particular shows his university lecture) and in fact, the author uses his experiences as a tool to discuss various issues, among which I found very interesting, because I had never read it: the problems of American health care system, processes for medication errors and position physicians on the death penalty. In short, although cin @ med for this year is already over, I would like to propose to my fellow students, and everyone else, Gawande's book, which is also written in a simple and direct, to be read without effort.
