spineboy's Journal: Amputations

FIrst entry:
F*CK, gotta whack off the arm and entire shoulder up to the neck of a fellow surgeon, for some cancer operation that went awry at another hospital. This is giving me major angst/identification issues and I don't like i -it's too painful. I just hope it's not in vain and they live for more than 5 years.
    Some other guy whose arm I had to whack off for cancer came in today for a follow up visit. Awesome guy, former guitar player (I still play bass, so this too is way to close for comfort), has 2 kids now has major problems with wife. She's drinking dailey and is prolly' going to dump him after said amputation above his elbow.
I need some one to remind me again why I chose this f*cking career. 10 year old girls and boys with leg tumors give me nightmares. Sometimes I just wished I worked as a painter or had some other job like that.

Moments

[BWJones]

Because there are moments in time where you get immediate gratification and you know that what you are doing is for the ultimate good. You set out to do good and in many cases as you know, removing the cancer or resolving immediate medical crises can increase the common good. As for the peripheral items, there are things that you become aware of and things you are not aware of. Unfortunately in science and medicine, we want to take ownership of the good things and (understandably) want to reject what we