Sunday, October 08, 2006

While watching Grey's Anatomy...

I’m writing this in the breaks in Grey’s Anatomy, so it might be a bit disjointed…! I do love GA. Yup, I know that’s totally uncool for a medical student, but I really do. Mainly for Dr Burke, but also for the soap opera drama-ness of their lives. Nothing that exciting ever happens to me. There’s also a less shagging in the on-call room. None for me in fact. And I’ve never met any doctors as hot Dr Burke…which may explain the lack of on-call room shagging…

You know, it really is unrealistic isn’t it. The specialist paediatric surgery from a district general cardiothoracic surgeon and all.

Ooo, made a cup of tea in that break. Earl Grey, black, in my favourite bone china mug with sunflowers on. Also got my half tub of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream out of the freezer. Ah, doesn’t get much better than this.

It’s been a beautiful day in Birmingham. Fresh and clean, with that hint of autumn – crisp air, leaves on the turn, conkers on the pavement… I went for a walk, after a mammoth clean up of the entire ground floor – kitchen, living room, piano room, my bedroom and my bathroom. I then took the empties wine and beer bottles (we’d accumulated two carrier bags full in the last two weeks…) to the bottle bank. It’s only five minutes up the road, but once I’d walked there and dumped the bottles (does anyone else lob them in the bins as hard as possible, trying to make the biggest and most satisfying smash?) I decided it was too beautiful to go home. So off I trotted round Selly Park, looking at some very lovely houses and some absolute monstrosities. I have sooo many ideas for when I build my own house. I am not sure exactly how I will accommodate them all…

Beautiful weather, especially now, as the nights draw in, always makes me so melancholy. I think it is the transient nature of the day, of time. I was having some very deep thoughts (well, deep for me, generally noted to be deep as a puddle) on the subject as I walked, but could come up with nothing more than it should be an encouragement to get out there and seize the day. Because you never know what tomorrow will bring.

And really, right now, that seems exactly what I should be doing.

3 comments:

Marysienka said...

It always makes me smile when I see other medstudents blogging about Grey's Anatomy. They usually hate the show and describe everything that's unrealistic. Personally, I love Grey's (as you know hehe), and I don't care if the cardiothoracic surgeon performs a cystoscopy or take out an appendix. And it doesn't matter if Addison is an ob/gyn/neonatalogist/ped surgeon!! Attendings sleeping with interns, yeah!!! I love it hehehe! Of course it's not the reality of medicine, but for those you want that, they just have to watch Surgeons or Trauma (real life cases)!
I like the drama of Grey's, that's why I watch the show :)

med neophyte said...

Same for me. No one watches Greys Anatomy for the medicine. It is the overpressured hothouse (yay McSteamy) drama of the whole thing. I get enough cold medical facts at school that I am not going to feel guilty about an hour of pure escapism.

Anna said...

I just wish that hospital life really was that exciting. The drama of their lives and the fantastically rare and bizarre cases they get in.

All I see in surgery is lap choles and knee arthroscopies. Sigh.