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Like the first rule of Fight Club, there are a number of highly interesting things that I cannot talk about, for various reasons.
But we are going to break that custom, just this once.
A person came in to see me professionally last month. For unremitting chest pain. It turns out that the cause of the pain wasn't physical.
This wasn't covered in the Med School syllabus.
I've no desire to offer service to these people. So ethically, that case gets referred to the public service.
Back at the outset of my career, there was a Revolution against the state by these people, in which the capital was sacked and looted, and the Houses of Parliament were converted to a hostage chamber, Police HQ was destroyed in a fire, and the only fools manning the surgery units outside the Capital were us residents.
We learned fast, under battle conditions.
After that, my tolerance for religious fools plunged to zero, along with tolerance for people who refused to serve during a war, but talk big after.
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Let's close with a joke:
After our very first Advanced Life Support and Trauma course was over, I went to the cinema with a dry witted surgeon in training. Predator was showing, doubled with a dated forgettable action flick.
During the movie, a hapless villain got blasted with a flamethrower, which jetted out his back.
"Mmm." Said my seatmate. "Full thickness burn."
Like the first rule of Fight Club, there are a number of highly interesting things that I cannot talk about, for various reasons.
But we are going to break that custom, just this once.
A person came in to see me professionally last month. For unremitting chest pain. It turns out that the cause of the pain wasn't physical.
My little island has the highest per capita converts to Isis, and exports fighters to the Middle East. There are a number of reasons for this, economic realities being one. In any case, you never know who is going to walk into your place of work.
In this particular case, 3 of this person's children undertook that path. And all 3 have been captured, by an entity that I cannot disclose. Suffice it to say that it is an unfriendly entity, as all 3 are scheduled for beheading. Unfriendly to Isis, specifically, is what I'm saying.
In this particular case, 3 of this person's children undertook that path. And all 3 have been captured, by an entity that I cannot disclose. Suffice it to say that it is an unfriendly entity, as all 3 are scheduled for beheading. Unfriendly to Isis, specifically, is what I'm saying.
This wasn't covered in the Med School syllabus.
I've no desire to offer service to these people. So ethically, that case gets referred to the public service.
Back at the outset of my career, there was a Revolution against the state by these people, in which the capital was sacked and looted, and the Houses of Parliament were converted to a hostage chamber, Police HQ was destroyed in a fire, and the only fools manning the surgery units outside the Capital were us residents.
We learned fast, under battle conditions.
(irrelevant surgical tips, tricks, and theories deleted, as paragraphs of technical stuff learned in combat medicine is pointless here)
Pregnant women all decide to have their babies during revolutions. Because, we're not busy enough.
Pregnant women all decide to have their babies during revolutions. Because, we're not busy enough.
After that, my tolerance for religious fools plunged to zero, along with tolerance for people who refused to serve during a war, but talk big after.
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Let's close with a joke:
After our very first Advanced Life Support and Trauma course was over, I went to the cinema with a dry witted surgeon in training. Predator was showing, doubled with a dated forgettable action flick.
During the movie, a hapless villain got blasted with a flamethrower, which jetted out his back.
"Mmm." Said my seatmate. "Full thickness burn."
