Connecting with the world again
Not sure how many people are still reading this journal since I rarely post now, but I wanna try to update more. We'll see how successful I am considering that I'm in the hospital about 10-12 hours a day. Why did I choose a profession that requires me to wake up at 5 in the morning everyday? I am not a morning person!
I'm currently doing my Obesity mini-rotation right now, which basically means that all my patients are obese-to-morbidly-obese, most likely undergoing some sort of bariatric surgery. Potentially difficult airways, difficulty with ventilation, especially if it's a laparoscopic surgery, and lots of co-morbidities like uncontrolled blood pressures, diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, cardiac and vascular diseases. In other words, potential anesthetic nightmares. And on a separate note, watching bariatric surgery, a combination of fascinating and incredibly boring. I realize that watching a laparoscopic surgery is like watching someone play a precision video game. And just like how you shift your arms or whole body right or left in hopes that the car you're controlling on the screen will also shift accordingly, I find myself tilting my head during surgery in hopes that the clamp or cautery or needle will finally reach the right spot.
In non-work news, I finally found time to go watch some of the recent movies after work on Saturday. I watched Ender's Game because it is based off of my favorite book, and I have been anticipating and dreading this movie ever since I heard they were planning on making it into a movie. I had really hoped that they would have animated the movie (would've been awesome if it could've looked as cool as the Final Fantasy movies), since the characters are all so young and talented child actors are rare, but this adaptation was...not bad. It stayed as true to the book as I could have expected and still have the pace be acceptable. Since the story takes place almost entirely in Ender's mind in the book, I knew there'd be a lot of details, especially the psychology and emotions, that was gonna be skipped/missing. There were a lot of character changes/mixing, the ending was not as satisfactory with the lack of emotional turmoil seen in the book, and the acting was average. But I will say that I enjoyed the battle scenes. No matter how many times I've read the book, the Battle Room and simulator battle scenes were still difficult for me to picture in my mind. And now there's finally a visual interpretation of the Buggers that I can see.
I also watched Thor 2, which I liked a lot more than the first one. The Avengers really made me like Thor a lot better, and Chris Hemsworth is hot. The movie also increased my love/hate relationship with Loki. Tom Hiddleston is a beautiful, talented man and Loki is such a wonderfully complicated character. You never know that he's really thinking and the things he do, whether good or bad, are always so calculated. He's always like 4-5 steps ahead of everyone. And he is so witty and hilarious without being a joke. He (and Darcy) made the movie a lot more fun that it could've been. And I know Natalie Portman is a great actress, and the whole Thor-Jane thing is supposed to be sweet and make you root for them...but I'm just not that invested. I only feel it because I think the story does a decent job of showing Thor's pain from being separated from Jane and Chris does well with the acting. Jane's side...less believing. She was more pissed at having been left, though she tried to sound sad and longing with less effect. Anyway, an overall entertaining movie after 8 hours of work on a Saturday. And I think I will watch all future Thor movies if only just for Loki.
Wow, that was way longer than I intended.
I'm currently doing my Obesity mini-rotation right now, which basically means that all my patients are obese-to-morbidly-obese, most likely undergoing some sort of bariatric surgery. Potentially difficult airways, difficulty with ventilation, especially if it's a laparoscopic surgery, and lots of co-morbidities like uncontrolled blood pressures, diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, cardiac and vascular diseases. In other words, potential anesthetic nightmares. And on a separate note, watching bariatric surgery, a combination of fascinating and incredibly boring. I realize that watching a laparoscopic surgery is like watching someone play a precision video game. And just like how you shift your arms or whole body right or left in hopes that the car you're controlling on the screen will also shift accordingly, I find myself tilting my head during surgery in hopes that the clamp or cautery or needle will finally reach the right spot.
In non-work news, I finally found time to go watch some of the recent movies after work on Saturday. I watched Ender's Game because it is based off of my favorite book, and I have been anticipating and dreading this movie ever since I heard they were planning on making it into a movie. I had really hoped that they would have animated the movie (would've been awesome if it could've looked as cool as the Final Fantasy movies), since the characters are all so young and talented child actors are rare, but this adaptation was...not bad. It stayed as true to the book as I could have expected and still have the pace be acceptable. Since the story takes place almost entirely in Ender's mind in the book, I knew there'd be a lot of details, especially the psychology and emotions, that was gonna be skipped/missing. There were a lot of character changes/mixing, the ending was not as satisfactory with the lack of emotional turmoil seen in the book, and the acting was average. But I will say that I enjoyed the battle scenes. No matter how many times I've read the book, the Battle Room and simulator battle scenes were still difficult for me to picture in my mind. And now there's finally a visual interpretation of the Buggers that I can see.
I also watched Thor 2, which I liked a lot more than the first one. The Avengers really made me like Thor a lot better, and Chris Hemsworth is hot. The movie also increased my love/hate relationship with Loki. Tom Hiddleston is a beautiful, talented man and Loki is such a wonderfully complicated character. You never know that he's really thinking and the things he do, whether good or bad, are always so calculated. He's always like 4-5 steps ahead of everyone. And he is so witty and hilarious without being a joke. He (and Darcy) made the movie a lot more fun that it could've been. And I know Natalie Portman is a great actress, and the whole Thor-Jane thing is supposed to be sweet and make you root for them...but I'm just not that invested. I only feel it because I think the story does a decent job of showing Thor's pain from being separated from Jane and Chris does well with the acting. Jane's side...less believing. She was more pissed at having been left, though she tried to sound sad and longing with less effect. Anyway, an overall entertaining movie after 8 hours of work on a Saturday. And I think I will watch all future Thor movies if only just for Loki.
Wow, that was way longer than I intended.