A surgeon"s Life.

Wake up at six in the morning after being informed about four casualties.
Examine patients, order investigations and plan to take up patients for surgery.
Perform a laparotomy on two, an eternal fixator application on one, and debridement of another patient's wound.
Miss breakfast and land up at OPD after completing rounds and giving instuctions for the previous day's cases.
Finish OPD at 4pm and get back home for lunch.
Answer the phone which rings as u enter your home-the nurse wants to know how much more fluid to administer a critically ill patient whose urine output has been lesser than 500ml in th last 8 hour.
Finish lunch and try taking a nap.(ur kids wont let u)
Reach the hospital at 6 pm for evening rounds.
A case of Acute appendicitis or two await u.Perform their appendectomies ,review all critically ill patients and complete documentation in the wards and return home at 11 pm.
Sleepily finish your dinner and flop into bed.
At 2 AM get a call from the nurse that the patient with oliguria u saw in the evening has had a cardiopulmonary arrest.Attempt resuscitation with the anesthesia colleague and place him on a ventilator.Return home at 5 AM.
Sleep for an hour ,and wake up at 6 AM.A new day begins.
Read from the top again.
Isn't Life fun.

A Soldier- Do You Know this man?

He is the unknown face at the border.
He stays closer to the enemy than to his home.
He returns home and feels like a stranger but feels comfortable amongst his comrades.
He walks the nights with his buddies cordoning/searching for foreign intruders while you sleep.
He wakes up everyday hoping that he'll sleep that night to wake up the next day too.
He misses his wife's pregnancy and returns home to see his child the first time when he is already 5 months old.
He is the unknown face at the border protecting you- somebody unknown to him.

Our soldiers-Give them a thought.