A practitioner that has about fifty inpatients asked me to stay 24 hours at his hospital, because he had to visit his daughter's dormitory in Tokyo. He isn't allowed to go out of the hospital without a substitute doctor. He earns big money, but I felt sympathy with him. He is deprived of his free time.
The picture is of my dinner tonight. It is the dinner for ordinary patients. I'm supposed to have a breakfast for patients with cerebrovascular disorders tomorrow. Salt is removed from it and the breakfast will taste awful. (Mar. 21st.)
I never understood why doctors work such long hours. Is it that there is a shortage of doctors to split the shifts? In my eyes, it's such a dangerous thing to have doctors working around the clock like that .. with so much responsibility.
Posted by: Sarah | Mar 25, 2009 at 03:28 PM