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five more weeks
23 Aug 2011 10:25 pmTwo new book reviews (I'm working on a backlog here), both of Booker Prize winners:
- The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
- Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
I'm on my last rotation before final exams (!!!) which is cardiology. I don't find it particularly thrilling but I'm getting slowly better at interpreting ECGs, and today I cardioverted someone who was in atrial flutter. Yep, there were paddles, and I got to say 'CLEAR' and press the buttons and the patient gave a violent KA-BUMP under my hands and I looked up at the ECG trace and she was in sinus rythym. It wasn't exactly a medical emergency, but it was deeply satisfying to the part of me that has watched far too much medical television and has always wanted to send an electrical current through someone's heart.
- The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
- Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
I'm on my last rotation before final exams (!!!) which is cardiology. I don't find it particularly thrilling but I'm getting slowly better at interpreting ECGs, and today I cardioverted someone who was in atrial flutter. Yep, there were paddles, and I got to say 'CLEAR' and press the buttons and the patient gave a violent KA-BUMP under my hands and I looked up at the ECG trace and she was in sinus rythym. It wasn't exactly a medical emergency, but it was deeply satisfying to the part of me that has watched far too much medical television and has always wanted to send an electrical current through someone's heart.
