My Budding Surgical Skills
The display on my friend’s laptop was behaving erratically last week, and, after trying every tweak and trick I have up my sleeve, I decided there was nothing for it but a new motherboard.
In one of my former career incarnations, I was a computer geek for the National Park Service. I enjoy fixing computers, I think because it’s like solving a puzzle. From what I’ve seen at the vet hospital, the process one uses to diagnose a sick dog isn’t all that different from the process one uses to diagnose a sick computer: evaluate the symptoms, determine the likely suspects, and rule out each of these systematically until you figure out what’s wrong. I’m definitely looking forward to that aspect of veterinary medicine.
One thing I’ve been fearing, however, is surgery. I’ve watched several surgeries and find it fascinating, but I also find it frightening to think I could open up a living creature and muck about in its insides. Read the rest of this entry ยป
Jul 19, 2008 | Comments are off | How I Got Here, Miscellany