An excerpt from Our Culture, What's left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses.
"I chose the disagreeable neighborhood in which I practiced because medically speaking, the poor are more interesting, at least to me, than the rich: their pathology is more florid, their need for attention greater. Their dilemmas , if cruder, seem to me more compelling, nearer to the fundamentals of human existence. No doubt I also felt my services would be more valuable there: in other words, that I had some kind of duty to perform. “
I had the shock the other day of realizing that working in a hospital unit will involve a limitless chronic problems that are usually related to high blood pressure, obesity, and poor lifestyle choices. Not quite the on-the-edge medical career I'd imagined. In fact, its been uphill the last few months staying motivated in nursing school because of the amount of protocol and machinery education that feels so irrelevant. But less than a year to go, right?
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