I recently finished an audiobook called When the Air Hits Your Brain
by Frank Vartosik, Jr., M .D. It took me a while to get through this
audiobook just because I started it when I was running, and then when
I stopped running, I set it aside and didn't really listen to
audiobooks very much.
It was also a tough listen because doctors, as they're going through
their medical school and their training and learning surgery and all
that, go through a lot. And listening to what this guy went through to
become a neurosurgeon along with the telling of the stories of the
patients that he highlights along his path was tough.
Coming from a career in a very demanding field that's known as high
stress, I listened to stories about how surgeons act and react and
feel like I relate to it sometimes. You get to a certain point in your
training and your experience where you just don't want to put up with
an aptitude and the lack of knowledge in someone, and you just want to
push them out of the way and do it or push them out of the way and get
somebody in there that can help you.
This guy sounds like he kept his humanity a little bit more than some
from what I've read and from the way shows depict surgeons. There's so
many good doctors and surgeons out there that the bad ones always
stand out and that's sad.
And there's so many stories on the human side of the suffering and the
things that happen to someone that just don't make any sense and how a
doctor and a surgeon step in and like magic these people are back to
the way they were or at least back to a healthy place where they can
live out their lives without the suffering associated with whatever
disease or wrongness that was going on before.
I have a lot of respect for doctors they put up with. people like me
and worse. I have a lot of respect for surgeons, although I've only
had one surgery that was in a hospital. I've had a few outpatient
surgeries to remove skin cancer.
Those people are always checking and monitoring and caring and hoping
that things go right. They do things a certain way and whatever it is
they do, they do it really well. If you want to learn more about what
somebody you know might be going through as they go through medical
school, be it general practitioner, surgeon, or even just as a REACH
veterinary school because that's a whole world that a lot of people
don't think about,
When the air hits your brain was a good listen via audiobook.
Check it out: https://a.co/d/9iw2XSJ
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