the professional
So, I passed all my boards, got my license, and am practicing in the big, bad city. Now, I just have to find a way to make enough money to support my family, and we're good.
Here are some books, movies, etc.
I read "A Simple Plan" by Scott Smith, and was completely blown away. This prompted a revisit to the movie, which is also first rate. In the book, things go way, way farther. Every choice this guy makes centers around trying to do the best thing for his family, and he becomes nothing short of a serial killer. Hardcore. Good read.
Not quite as good was "The Ruins" by the same author. Bunch of kids get trapped on a hill in the middle of a rainforest. It is worth reading, and certainly speeds right by, but all in all it just wasn't great.
"Better" by Atul Gawande was a great read if you dig on medical stuff. He disects everything from handwashing to trauma in Iraq, and he does it vividly. I really like this author-- he also wrote "complications: a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science," which was fantastic. He reminds me of malcom gladwell.
Right now I am reading "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein (excellent), Sin City by Frank Miller (Awesome), and "Dui Yao: The art of combining Chinese Medicinals by Phillipe Sonnieau (only great if you dig on Chinese Medicine).
In cinema, all I can talk about right now is "The Lives of Others," A german film that one best foreign language film at the Oscars last year. It is about a socialist playwrite and the secret police who have him under surveillance. Really, really fucking good movie, and it even manages to make you feel good about being alive towards the end, which was nice.
I'm going to try to post more regularly in this again, but I am going to avoid being raunchy, and I am also going to refrain from talking about anything medical. Gotta be a man now, I suppose.
So I guess that's about that.
Here are some books, movies, etc.
I read "A Simple Plan" by Scott Smith, and was completely blown away. This prompted a revisit to the movie, which is also first rate. In the book, things go way, way farther. Every choice this guy makes centers around trying to do the best thing for his family, and he becomes nothing short of a serial killer. Hardcore. Good read.
Not quite as good was "The Ruins" by the same author. Bunch of kids get trapped on a hill in the middle of a rainforest. It is worth reading, and certainly speeds right by, but all in all it just wasn't great.
"Better" by Atul Gawande was a great read if you dig on medical stuff. He disects everything from handwashing to trauma in Iraq, and he does it vividly. I really like this author-- he also wrote "complications: a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science," which was fantastic. He reminds me of malcom gladwell.
Right now I am reading "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein (excellent), Sin City by Frank Miller (Awesome), and "Dui Yao: The art of combining Chinese Medicinals by Phillipe Sonnieau (only great if you dig on Chinese Medicine).
In cinema, all I can talk about right now is "The Lives of Others," A german film that one best foreign language film at the Oscars last year. It is about a socialist playwrite and the secret police who have him under surveillance. Really, really fucking good movie, and it even manages to make you feel good about being alive towards the end, which was nice.
I'm going to try to post more regularly in this again, but I am going to avoid being raunchy, and I am also going to refrain from talking about anything medical. Gotta be a man now, I suppose.
So I guess that's about that.
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