My Understanding of Being an Anesthesiologist

My understanding of being an anesthesiologist.

236 January 2014 MMy childhood dream was to be a doctor. To fulfill it, I took a 5-year undergraduate degree in traditional Chinese medicine. But after all that training and education, I became an anesthesiologist instead. The great people, Mr. Sun Yat-sen and Mr. Lu Xun, both used to be doctors. They gave up the profession of medicine because they felt they were needed more in other places. In...

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Being Lived by My Life

The subsidiary title of this book is "A sort of biography"; and the publisher's note describes it as "a new departure in auto-biography". Both these claims are true. Dr. Berg, an analyst and the author of several technical works, has chosen to write his autobiography in much the same style as one might expect to hear a life story from the analyst's couch. How far he has succeeded, and how far h...

Understanding Human Well - being

Does it matter who the anesthesiologist is for my heart surgery?