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Denial, after all, is a way of coping that we learn early and well as first-year medical students, suppressing our anxieties as we carve away at the cadaveric remains of fellow human beings.

"We wanted to do everything for this child, and the pediatricians and we surgeons decided to use all the extremes of technology. A cluster transplant of liver and small bowel and the finest critical care available in the world."
دي حالة طفل مولود بعيب خلقي صعب أساسًا، بس اتقدم له كل ال interventions المناسبة لحالته بأفضل رعاية ممكنة.
لو في مصر هنعلق له محلول - بتوجيه من السيد المحافظ - وبعدين نشوف الكلام على ايه

عاصرة على نفسي ليمونة

Doctors -like writers, artists, and spies are professional people-watchers. More specifically, a doctor's work relies on the ability to discern, among thousands of biological cues, the underlying pathology. It is a skill that is part art, part science; and the more we can see, and sense, and sort, the better our
care.

الوصف رائع. الطب part art, part science، والطبيب professional people watcher.

"If you poke a hole from the belly into the diaphragm and, with your fingers, clear away the tissues that separate the heart from the spine, there will be just enough space back there to fit your entire arm."
أنشطة وقت الفراغ عند دكاترة الجراحة

I suddenly felt as if my heart had disappeared out of my chest, leaving a large empty hole that even my lungs could not fill.💔

"The great clinicians are not just born; they are trained."
هل هكون دكتورة شاطرة؟ لما بفكر في مستقبلي المهني لو عشنا يعني، بخاف. المسؤولية تقيلة وصعبة. هبقى مسؤولة يومًا ما عن مريض؟ هييجي حد في أضعف لحظات حياته وبيتألم وأنا اللي هكون مسؤولة أفحصه وأشخصه وأعالجه؟ الموضوع مرعب بصراحة.

The act of dissecting a human cadaver -of feeling and seeing and holding the human body and its parts- remains fundamental to medical education. For physicians, the experience remains one of the most transformative in their early professional lives.
صحيح.. دخول المشرحة مش زي خروجها.

"We need to learn to separate our emotional self from our scientific self; we must view this dead human body not as "one of us” but as “one of them,” a medical case to be understood but not embraced."
صحيح، وعملية الفصل دي بتحصل تدريجيًا وعلى مستوى لا واعي، لدرجة ممكن نشوف طلبة وصلوا لدرجة من الاعتياد إنهم ياكلوا في المشرحة بكل أريحية على نفس الطاولة اللي عليها ال cadaver، أو بتتصور بال skull وال bones!

"Si vis vitam, para mortem."
If you would endure life, be prepared for death. Preparing for death may be the most difficult exam of all, but it is the one that will, finally, free us to live.