The Intensive Art

I woke up at 5:30am today for no particular reason. I looked at my clock in shock and dragged my butt out of bed. Getting out of bed at that time is a bit of a shock at first, but I love having a quiet morning with a cup of tea and breakfast television. It makes the day feel longer when you get that chunk of time in before the sun comes up.

I decided first thing to search for “erasure” on youtube.com. What ensued was about two hours of watching video after video of their’s. We don’t get to see much of them here in Canada, so it was pretty much my first time watching many of their videos. An even harder chore was trying to pick a video to share with everyone. In the end, I desided on this one, simply because it’s one of my all time favorites. It is called “Fingers and Thumbs (Cold Summer’s Day).”

My only plan for today is to write a clinical reflection on ethics. I need to research the specific rules around performing procedures against a patient’s will. This is a pretty big topic, so it should really be no big deal. This all stems from an incident where we put an NG tube in a man that was begging us to stop. He didn’t speak english, so we struggled to communicate the reason for the procedure. In the end, after his extremely distended abdomen was drained, he was VERY happy we did the procedure and thanked me profusely. Still, there was something about inserting the tube while he was yellling “no, no, no, no!” That didn’t sit well with me. The other option was to clean emesis off him and his bed every fifteen minutes.

Other than that, I have a lot of tea drinking and blog reading planned. I have decided that people just don’t update their blogs enough to entertain me on these long days away from clinical practice! Get to it!

I hope everybody is having a wonderful day!

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