Walking toward the cafeteria, I have to slow to avoid a group of women taking up the whole hallway. They must be from the same floor, all wearing the same color scrubs and chat-chat-chatting about a department meeting. “A mass exodus,” one laughs as they move toward the elevators. Another latches on to something in [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Overheard: In the hospital
Posted in Overheard on 25 August 2009 | 1 Comment »
Two weeks of words (of which my word processor recognises only seven)
Posted in Clinicals, School on 23 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
dioxetane
luminogenic
paracrine
intrathecal
sepharose
nascent
methanogenesis
dynode
holmium oxide
didymium glass
quadrupole
pinocytosis
leptospirosis
ixodid
morula
ochronosis
leukotrienes
pauciarticular
iridocylitis
nephelometry
effete
vicinal
isocratic
La Picadura de Garrapata
Posted in Overheard, Small Moments, tagged Mosquitoes, Overheard, Small Moments on 14 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was another long day of sitting and reading. I am hoping this is because of my foot and not because they think I like sitting around doing next to nothing all day. I did hear they will be putting me to work on Monday, so that is good news. There are no more relevant [...]
Small Moments, Big Question
Posted in Clinicals, Growing, Overheard, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Clinicals, Community, Small Moments on 12 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Planning road trips. Wondering what to wear, what book to read aloud in the car. Imagining listening to the radio on scan and laughing at small things glimpsed through small windows.
Reading instrument manuals and package inserts, trying to learn principles. After the tenth word is written in the margin with a question mark behind it, [...]
