EVERY PERSON'S LIFE AN UNWRITTEN NOVEL

Blog number 154                                               March 3, 2008

I'm reading this book about and by a woman neurosurgeon.  It's called, Another Day In the Frontal Lobe.  Fascinating.

She tells in one place about how the different surgeons handle stress.  Some good, some not so good.  She has seen nurses "flee the room, scared to return." 

She has seen foot stomping and equipment flung to the floor in temper tantrums.  And then she goes on to relate:

These days, in this era of political correctness, the worst offenders can actually be threatened with forced time off and sensitivity training.  This fate befell one foreign-born surgeon who yelled at a nurse in awkward English: "I cut your face!"

Hah!  I love humans. 
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Did you know that one Cincinnati surgeon named Robert White actually performed a head transplant on a Primate in 1970 - back in the old days when you could still smoke in hospital rooms and school classrooms?  Enlightenment coexisting with the Dark Ages.

He called it, though, a "body transplant" and that seems more accurate, yes?  Also, since the spinal cord could not be attached, the primate became a quadriplegic.