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We are professionals and most of our waking lives inside the hospital will be spent on hands on teaching rather than lecture classes. Can't keep a busy outpatient waiting... Have to take a quick round through the intensive care unit and wards. Meanwhile you'll have to learn whatever you can by using your observational skills. There they are...my team of medical students, interns, house officers and consultants waiting to trail behind me. No point introducing you to them, they can't see you anyway.
God started taking in the sight of various machines strewn around the ICU floor in reasonably comfortable beds, a chest pain, now drugged, A machine all puffed up and breathless, the case sheet diagnosis read--myocardial infarction day one, k four. A young lady producing a sound from her throat of the wind passing through bamboo reeds was appearing breathless due to the effort, a young man lying limp with a breathing machine attached to his throat seemingly pumping life. God peered at the case sheet written by the night intern and got a shock. He had written a poem rather than anything substantial. It went, “Breathing machine pumping love, Eyes of dying hens, Pierce to depths of turbulence, Needles, blood gas and movement, Brisk sharp and painful, A cascade of alarms, ventilator settings, Causes and remedies, Eventually dropping off to an unusual silence, Mountain valleys, placid waters, Light of dawn and a distant bird song, Waking up to a humidifier alarm.
The professor continued, “I know to the uninitiated the ICU can be a ghastly sight with machines in a state of utter disrepair connected to funny tubings and monitors making awful sounds from time to time. Personally I feel you need to start at the bottom of the ladder here if you really want to know how to fix this stuff. You know, like becoming a medical student for instance. For that you will need a human body to interact with other fellow humans. You will need to acquire a fetus to start off with as a human baby, be part of a nice family while you grow up and then join this bunch of medical students (who might be your consultants by that time). Unless you acquire a human form you can't really hope to be a good system troubleshooter. You'll just have to remain a silent invisible spectator from an indifferent Godly domain. Personally I am very much influenced by this saying,” Life is something which everyone should try once.”
Think over it while June tells you about the machines lying here. June is her Nepali name, which means the moon that can also suggest loony, and most of her descriptions will seem peculiar at first as you aren't used to the post modern medical jargon. She's the only other person in this group who can make out your presence here.
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