Get My Posts By Email !!!!

So I don't post very frequently, it becomes a bother to check my site.  I've had several people ask me for this since I post once every blue moon.  Well it's here!!!  New posts sent to your email.

1. Go to the bottom of this page.
2. Type in your email address and click on the black box that says "submit".
3. Type in the security code that appears afterwards.
4. Go to your email (the one you just entered) and click on the provided link that was sent to you by email from "feedburner". 

That's it, now you should get an email whenever I decide I have the time to update my blog...I think it might even come with the post itself. Let me know what you think, if it doesn't work ect.

Thank you all for reading!

Newbie Doc

So Lucky

You know I feel like alot of my posts spiral into depressing thoughts.  It's hard not to go there when writing about medicine, it's a vast ocean of choppy waters, I'm a new doctor learning my way.  Sadly, it's often said "you don't want to be interesting in this place".  When something exciting happens, it's often at the expense of someones health...that's why I think this place is so peculiar, this hospital I work at looks like a child's paradise with the vibrant colors, the smiling faces, the lush parks and playgrounds around it...but for most it's a place where they hurt more than they ever hurt before, for others it's a place where they lost there little boy or girl.  It's hard not to get sucked into that and think about that when I come home, it's easy for me to write about in this blog where I talk about what I see, but I also see patients get better, far more often than not.  It's a place where I run into patients visiting the clinic who I treated that are now doing "much better".  Those kids smile and laugh and go home to play another day. 

What I wanted to post about is this, it's easy to get sucked into negativity, but the truth is that we are living in one of the best countries in the world.  Despite it's faults, we are all insanely lucky to live here.  Yesterday, when I was playing with my little boy, laughing at how much of a goofball he is (like his dad), the words just slipped out of my mouth, like it wasn't my brain that actually said it, "We are so damn lucky."   I know it's all relative, that it's not always great for me and it isn't always great for you, sometimes I work 30 hour days, sometimes I cry at work, sometimes people die, but the truth is each of us should be saying that every day we get, we don't but we should.  Remember that it could all go away in an instant, easier than any of us could possibly imagine, so don't take them for granted.  We are all, in some way, so Lucky.

Newbie Doc