Author of quotes: Adam Kay

Starting to work as a resident, I have noticed an interesting paradox: becoming an expert at prioritization at work, now I'm even worse than dealing with it in real life.

After becoming a resident, you quickly learn to skillfully prioritize. The feeling is, if you are constantly in a kind of logic puzzle, like the one about the wolf, goat and cabbage, which need to be transported by boat to the other side. Soon you have a dozen goats all give birth to triplets, and the boat made of sugar.

I don't quite understand where will these extra couple of hours a day or I will have to abandon your frivolous hobby called sleeping or start to live in the storeroom at work, not to spend time every day on the way home and back.

To appreciate the complexity of the process (meaning laparoscopy), try to tie their shoelaces with chopsticks. With my eyes closed. In the open space.

Profession offer the surrounding tables than just not attractive. Mainly, of course, the opportunity to receive each month "fuck you" money. However, nothing beats knowing that you saved someone's life. You go home - no matter how late, no matter how tired, no matter how much you weren't someone else's blood - flying gait, which is difficult to be explained, with feeling, what you brought this world good.

When you get so tired everything seems unreal - feeling almost as, as if caught in a computer game. You're kind of like here, but at the same time and not here. I think the reaction speed I have now is exactly the same as after three pints of beer. And yet I don't think they'll be happy I come to work tipsy, - for them is clearly important that my senses were impaired it fatigue.

Not to go to the bottom, we have to learn to swim.

Those who has nothing to do with medicine, can never understand how hard it is to be a doctor, and what a blow this profession on personal life.

Medicine is only one of the professions, which anyone on the planet able to learn.

The smallest of actions sometimes lead to very serious consequences.

After a long conversation with the husband of one patient that all the condoms, what he tried, he was small, I found out that he pulled them directly on the eggs.

You can curse the work with her crazy schedule, make a voodoo doll of the guide, and even to carry constantly a vial of ricin on the occasion of the meeting with the Minister of health, however each of your patients you care for real.

From the words "just grass" the room temperature seemed to have dropped a couple of degrees, and Hugo hardly restrain himself not to sigh, resignedly rolling his eyes. Obviously, he is not the first time confronted with a similar.
"You know, apricot pits contain cyanide, dryly he replied. - Mortality from death caps is fifty percent. Natural does not mean safe. In my garden there is a plant, which if you just sit ten minutes, you will certainly die." It's done: a bottle of capsules flies in the bin.
Later colonoscopy I asked him what this plant is.
"Water Lily".

When you're sixteen, your motivation to practice medicine is usually limited to phrases like "My parents were doctors," "I love Dr. house" or "I want to cure cancer."