… plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer’s art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
T.S. Eliot’s morbid poem says “The whole earth is our hospital.”
The wounded surgeon is the subject of a new study.
Surgeons “who practiced in an academic medical center” showed lower rates of suicidal ideation.
January 18th, 2011 at 12:28AM
Here is a different take: surgeons are from Mars and the rest of us are from another place. See here:
http://pharmagossip.blogspot.com/2011/01/there-is-fracture.html
Hat tip to Pharmagossip.