A Good Design

“Morning and eveningSomeone waits at Matsushima!One-sided love.” — Matsuo Bashō Surgical training often feels like this haiku. A resident waits morning and evening — outside operating rooms, beside hospital beds, near the phone during call nights — longing not for romance, but for competence, recognition, and mastery. The relationship is painfully one-sided. Surgery demands everything:…

Every medical student reaches a point where the human body starts feeling less like anatomy and more like a cruel memory game designed by sleep-deprived scientists. And then comes the wrist bones. Eight tiny carpal bones sitting in two neat rows — silently waiting to destroy your confidence before anatomy exams. You stare at the…

1. The number of deaths caused by breast cancer and road traffic accident are less than the death caused by Medical errors. In a 2006 study medication errors are among the most common medical mistakes, harming at least 1.5 million people every year.180,000 people die each year partly as a result of injury inflicted by…

For the first time I saw this view on the roof of my neighbours house, I gathered up a lot of hope.No one expected this Life to be here.No one nurtured it.No one wanted it to be here in the first place.For most of the people it has no reason to be here.Life exist because…

A “wimp” because fear creates caution. Fear makes you double-check anatomy before cutting. Fear forces humility. Fear reminds you that every human body can punish arrogance in seconds. Fear prevents recklessness. And brave because despite that fear, the incision still has to be made. A surgeon who feels nothing becomes careless.A surgeon who feels too…