Hospital Read Online Free
Author: Julie Salamon
also a community struggling with the thorny social forces changing the world around it. As I filled reams of paper with my hand-scrawled daily logs, and boxfuls of taped interviews, I discovered the very human quality that remains the keystone of what can seem like a giant, impersonal enterprise.
Over the course of a year, I would become privy to many conversations and miscommunications, as well as the thoughts, interactions, successes, and failings of a remarkable confluence of compassionate and contentious people. They were ambitious, shortsighted, altruistic, selfish, foolhardy, and wise. They tried to respect themselves and their patients, a task that often appeared far more difficult than diagnosing illness or performing complex medical procedures or speaking one another’s languages. They tried to remember— against the odds posed by a greedy and corrupted health-care system and by institutional and human frailty—that healing was the heart of the matter.
One
Occam Lied
Occam’s razor (sometimes spelled Ockham’s razor ) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae (“law of parsimony” or “law of succinctness”): Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, which translates to “Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.”
This is often paraphrased as “All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best.”
—FROM WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
NEW SUCK REPORT, VOLUME 1, ISSUES: LOTS JULY, 2005
Dudes
Greetings from the Big Apple, or as I shall henceforth refer to it as . . . . New Suck! . . . I actually am winning the War on Cockroach Terror, but it is a non-stop battle, so keep me in your prayers. So things here in The Brooklyn are not what I thought they would be. I only thought it would blow slightly, but alas, it blows severely. Anyone who said that New Suck is the greatest city on the planet obviously never lived in San Diego. or Boulder. or Denver. or the North Pole. Or even Grand Island, Nebraska. Yes, i would rather live in G.I. Nebraska than here. Sure there is lots to do. if you like doing them in a giant hot smelly city at the same time as a gillion other people, and paying up the wazoo to do them. . . .
I’ll give you the goods now: I live in a place in The Brooklyn called Boro Park, which is the highest concentration of Orthodox Jewish people in the world, bordered by Sunset Park and the most diverse zip code in the United States. Our hospital has translators for 67 different languages, if that tells you anything about the population here. And the people here are also very sick. Not like “Dude that run was sick!”, but more like “dude that old man is sick as hell, I’m pretty sure he’s gonna die in 5 minutes!”
So it will be good to train here I guess. If you can get the translator down to the ER fast enough to figure out what the heck is going on, you can actually save lots of lives here. sweet.
And my favorite part about New York is . . . i forgot. was there one? I’m delirious now. I am working all night shifts with one day shift this week, so my schedule is all jacked up. . . .
In summary, New Suck is fairly sucky, hence the name. . . .
ok i gotta study or sleep or something now.
Love, davey
“Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive.” The Old Man and the Sea
NEW SUCK REPORT, VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2: DAVEY’S DAY OFF
Alright, so I got a day off and the most logical thing to do here in New Suck would
be . . . go surfing, duh.
First problem—I live nowhere near the beach
Second problem—I do not have a car
But once I got to the subway stop, all i had to do was
1. Take the D Train all the
Over the course of a year, I would become privy to many conversations and miscommunications, as well as the thoughts, interactions, successes, and failings of a remarkable confluence of compassionate and contentious people. They were ambitious, shortsighted, altruistic, selfish, foolhardy, and wise. They tried to respect themselves and their patients, a task that often appeared far more difficult than diagnosing illness or performing complex medical procedures or speaking one another’s languages. They tried to remember— against the odds posed by a greedy and corrupted health-care system and by institutional and human frailty—that healing was the heart of the matter.
One
Occam Lied
Occam’s razor (sometimes spelled Ockham’s razor ) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae (“law of parsimony” or “law of succinctness”): Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, which translates to “Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.”
This is often paraphrased as “All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best.”
—FROM WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
NEW SUCK REPORT, VOLUME 1, ISSUES: LOTS JULY, 2005
Dudes
Greetings from the Big Apple, or as I shall henceforth refer to it as . . . . New Suck! . . . I actually am winning the War on Cockroach Terror, but it is a non-stop battle, so keep me in your prayers. So things here in The Brooklyn are not what I thought they would be. I only thought it would blow slightly, but alas, it blows severely. Anyone who said that New Suck is the greatest city on the planet obviously never lived in San Diego. or Boulder. or Denver. or the North Pole. Or even Grand Island, Nebraska. Yes, i would rather live in G.I. Nebraska than here. Sure there is lots to do. if you like doing them in a giant hot smelly city at the same time as a gillion other people, and paying up the wazoo to do them. . . .
I’ll give you the goods now: I live in a place in The Brooklyn called Boro Park, which is the highest concentration of Orthodox Jewish people in the world, bordered by Sunset Park and the most diverse zip code in the United States. Our hospital has translators for 67 different languages, if that tells you anything about the population here. And the people here are also very sick. Not like “Dude that run was sick!”, but more like “dude that old man is sick as hell, I’m pretty sure he’s gonna die in 5 minutes!”
So it will be good to train here I guess. If you can get the translator down to the ER fast enough to figure out what the heck is going on, you can actually save lots of lives here. sweet.
And my favorite part about New York is . . . i forgot. was there one? I’m delirious now. I am working all night shifts with one day shift this week, so my schedule is all jacked up. . . .
In summary, New Suck is fairly sucky, hence the name. . . .
ok i gotta study or sleep or something now.
Love, davey
“Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive.” The Old Man and the Sea
NEW SUCK REPORT, VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2: DAVEY’S DAY OFF
Alright, so I got a day off and the most logical thing to do here in New Suck would
be . . . go surfing, duh.
First problem—I live nowhere near the beach
Second problem—I do not have a car
But once I got to the subway stop, all i had to do was
1. Take the D Train all the
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