For you aspiring doctors…
I’ve originally planned to blog on something else, but this piece of written work captured my attention from the moment I first started reading it all the way towards the end.
Here’s On call in Hell, the featured article of the day on Newsweek.com. Not even the doctoring you see in ‘Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World’, ‘Black Hawk Down’, ‘Saving Private Ryan’ or ‘Band of Brothers’ could compare with the gory description of what Richard Jadick saw in Fallujah. From the account, he totally deserved the Bronze Star for his what he did there.
Now you know why I don’t want to become a doctor. Too gory, and potentially traumatic (perhaps it’s just my overactive imagination, or maybe not). Besides, never really liked having the fate of someone’s life literally placed into your hands, at least not in this way.
For those of you who are now on the way towards becoming one, be thankful that battlefield triage is only a distant concept in doctoring here. Unless you are so desensitised to the priceless value of life till deciding who lives and who dies on the spot is as easy as choosing what to watch at the movies.
