Japanese Surgeon's Daily Life

Kyoto

　　I got two days off and the weather would become better. I didn't know why, but I wanted to see a few acquaintances whom I hadn't seen for a long time. I headed for Kyoto to see a doctor who used to be my medical advisor in the field of gynecology and obstetrics when I was a green doctor. I chatted with him for about 30 minutes after an interval of 30 years. It was great fun. Then I left for Katada city by Lake Biwa to see my old friend. I'll write about him in another entry and I visited a temple in Kyoto city to say hello to my senior surgeon's tomb. I've already written about him in this entry(link). I wasn't able to repress my tears.

http://kumo.typepad.jp/weblog/2018/04/uss-bowfin1.html

２日間の休みが取れた。天気予報によれば天気は良いらしい。なぜか急に世話になった先輩医師に会いたくなり、京都へ向かった。まずは大津市へ。約３０年前、研修医時代に産婦人科の指導をして頂いた先生にお目にかかり、３０分ほど近況報告。３０年前の記憶が甦り楽しい時間だった。次に５０年来の友人宅へ寄り、来年の祇園祭の打ち合わせ。来年は泊めてもらって祇園祭を楽しむ相談。(^o^)そして京都市内のあるお寺へ墓参に向かった。このお墓の主については下記のブログに書いた。

Water Supply for Hospital

　　I wrote about the water supply operation by the army in the last entry, but it was not enough in the case of my hospital, as the hospital offered shower-taking opportunities to the neighbors along with inpatient needs, so the neighboring municipalities reached their helping hands to us. Take a look at the following pictures. The red vehicle was a tank truck for firefighting operations. It brought us 10 tons of water twice a day. It was really helpful. As for me personally, I was able to drink hot coffee in my lunchtime break thanks to them! Though Japan is rich in natural disasters, I think that the rescue system also is better compared with other developed countries.

Water Supply

　　As I went to a nearby branch of the municipal library to return the books which I had borrowed before the flood damage, I found a bill on the entrance door which said that the branch would be closed for some time for the restoration of the other branches and the main library. On the parking lot, the water delivery by the army was being done. Several inhabitants were gathering around the supply truck. The water supply system was influenced by the influx of contaminated water into the water purifying plant and it seems we have to wait for its recovery for a week or so.

Torrential Rain

　　Japan is told to be a natural disaster-rich country, but my hometown has been exceptionally free from big disasters until now. People don't mind so much the weather alarm if issued by the meteorological agency, but I was really surprised with the continuing torrential rain these couple of days. The agency had warned us about the massive rain which comes only once or less in a century, but I didn't take it seriously.
　　The heavy rain started on July 5th. I was in my office on the night of July 6th and was to be on duty until the evening of the 7th, but my boss advised me to leave earlier as several pieces of news about landslides near my office came in. Several routes to my home were closed one after another, and the last one is shown below. I was barely able to reach home on this route, but about a few hours after I passed, this route was also closed due to the imminent danger of landslides.