The wonder drug

Hail,
Very brief missive here, a few minutes before I dash off to Florey for the evening shift. It's been cold the last few days, it's raining now, and I reckon teh meds need adjusting.

Well, I hope they do, because I adjusted them myself this morning. We shall see.

I am not entirely sure what's brought this on, if indeed the moods respond to anything internal. I've been trying to work out what to do next year, and whereas in normal people choice is something usually pleasant, I tend to get a bit paralysed by it. That's why I normally like Emergency medicine - when someone's heart-rate drops to thirty, your choices are ultimately pretty simple. Anyway, I've been ringing around the various hospitals and disciplines asking them if they want someone, and generally being agreeable and pleasant, I think at the end of it all I'd promised to work next year in psychiatry, emergency, anaesthetics and paediatrics at four different hospitals scattered throughout the metropolitan area.

Anyway, next year will be psychiatry at Shipton.

I have almost certainly revealed my "contagion" theorey of mental illness beforehand, but if not, here it is. An insight of Pasteur-like proportions:

All mental illness is spread by tiny infectious particles, called crazons.

I developed this theory after my first psychiatry term, when I noticed the depressed people made me depressed, the manic made me feel damn good, the anxious made me anxious and so on. I got so I hid from the avoidant personality types and wanted to smack out the antisocials.

It couldn't last. I eventually realised the paranoiacs were plotting against me, and I had to go to my boss and tell him if I spent any more time with the people with borderline personality disorder I'd kill myself and they'd all be sorry.

Anyway. We shall see. Next post may be about the aliens among us.

John

By the way, we were having a "You reckon that's stupid?" discussion the other day and I reckon I won, with my shamefaced confession that until about three years ago, I believed Tim Curry and Tim Rice were the same, remarkably talented person.