Beep... Beep... Beep. The world sometimes feels like it's going in slow motion. Everything's a blur but your senses somehow know what is going on. Sight, sound, smell, feel, taste. Often we wonder how the human body functions. As Dr. Richard Selzer once said "Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine." Isn't it intriguing how a doctors reassuring words can be more powerful then medicine itself? Some of us are born with the ability to detect a problem when tests and scans don't show anything.
Tests and scans are the building blocks to the beginning of altering someone's life. There like the experiment after the hypothesis, you never know until results are given. As surgeons we often hypothesize an ER patients case. Headaches, seizures, vision changes can lead to Oculomotor Nerve Dysfunction; a Brain Aneurysm. As a surgeon, phenomenons of near-death memories, are not things we want believe in.
Each day we are given the choice to change someone's life. Why waste an opportunity? No matter how much we hate a patient, we are there to save lives and not to have an opinion; unless the patient asks for our opinion. You know that part in Hercules where the 3 ugly mistresses are about to cut Hercules' lifeline string? That's how fragile and precious life is. With just one accident your life could come to an end. We hold your life in our hands; do you trust us? You must live life and realize it potential.
"Dr. Buerton! You're on rounds today."
Even if that means you want to just die.
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Casualties
General FictionIn a hospital where Residents are set back, one night will change them forever. Especially Indiana, a Neurosurgeon Resident, who life changes because of one little, pink accident.
