paging doctor blog?

bloggery.

i have mixed feelings writing this introductory blurb to my blab.  next thing you know i'll be tweeting.  and i generally try to avoid things that have "twit" right in the title.  hardly need the help on that front  :)

but i have this new job.  and it is filling my skull beyond capacity and i need a release valve for the 8 ka-billion new thoughts it's making me think.  i'm studying biomedical ethics as they are strained between high-income and low-to-middle-income countries in the context of transnational medical research, and my job is to read (all day) other people's thoughts on the matter.   and they are such prolific thinkers!  full of passion and insight for what is Right and Moral (and really, what is Right and Moral?).  i spend half of my time trying to discipline my own tinker, stifling the 80-katrillion questions that this research provokes.  politics, personalities, institutions and individuals colliding in the effort we all share - how to stay alive!

in short, i'm in mental heaven :)

i've also recently been accepted into medical school.  all day i work professionally with the question: "what does it mean to practice medicine ethically?  morally?  what does it mean for a physician to be Good - not in terms of skill, but in terms of being?"

it naturally makes me wonder:  can i be a Good doctor when i grow up?

tbd.