Comments | amasashi: All About the Children

amasashi

All About the Children

Jul 13, 2007 18:26

When it comes to pediatrics...

Greatest Thing About the Job
How the innocence and purity of young children restore my faith in humanity.

Worst Drawback
Dead kids. Children should not die. Ever. And parents should never live to see their children die. It's just wrong.

Biggest Pet Peeve
People who dismiss pediatricians as nothing more than an ( Read more... )

Comments 15

erf_ July 13 2007, 17:10:43 UTC

Looks like doctoring has given you a soul. :]

amasashi July 13 2007, 18:08:59 UTC

Yup, I'm no longer a hollow tin chest!

karinablack July 13 2007, 17:20:06 UTC

The abuse cases and deaths would kill me :(

amasashi July 13 2007, 18:09:57 UTC

Yeah, those are the worst, the abuse cases. It's always a dark time, no matter how you cut it.

ellesque July 13 2007, 17:28:45 UTC

Good entry. :)

So, are you a pediatrician, officially? Sorry, I'm eternally confused about all the steps in medical training, etc. Hehe.

amasashi July 13 2007, 18:18:23 UTC

Allow me to offer you a crash course in medical training ( ... )

xiexiei July 16 2007, 04:18:37 UTC

:] I liked this entry.

amasashi July 17 2007, 04:59:03 UTC

That seems to be the general consensus :-)

houareyoutoday July 16 2007, 16:53:42 UTC

On the policy of having pediatricians standing by in the OR: it's legal, not medical. Because really, parents are the most lawsuit happy "patients" I know, and no one wants to be holding the bag when the shit falls. Because really, how do you think John Edwards made his gajillion dollars ( ... )

amasashi July 17 2007, 05:22:54 UTC

Lots of stuff, lots of stuff...

1. Legal or medical, I still think they should change the peds standing by thing. I mean really, it's not that hard, especially for OB since they're used to handling newborns. Because aside from intubating and sending the poor guy to NICU, what else is there to do in the delivery room ( ... )

houareyoutoday July 17 2007, 17:01:13 UTC

1. What else is there to do in the delivery room? That either sounds like a peds-centric only view (and I hope that's what it is) and not a totally sexist view- hello!!!! Isn't there like a mom or something also in the room? Who could like, bleed? Who, like, is the obgyn's patient as well? Just a thought, man ( ... )

amasashi July 17 2007, 23:22:27 UTC

1. Well, okay, true, there's lot of stuff to do in the delivery room. I just meant there's really not much you can do for the baby in there.

2. Heh heh heh, glad we're in the same boat about derm.

3. So the problem is with the girls, eh? I always thought it would be the other way around. Weird.

4. True, true, can never be too trusting these days.

5. Really? If you hate internal medicine, why are you going into GI? Just to stick tentacle-y stuff up people's butts? :-P