Complications #2

I had read further in the book and it brings up some scary things.  It talks about how surgical residents go through with learning how to do the procedures.  When they do their first procedure they know the anatomy of the body, but cutting into the body is a whole different thing.  It also goes over how the hospital will never let residents practice on well known/family members in the hospital for those reasons.

Research Paper

This week and the last week we have started working on a research paper.  I have decided to work on the issue of Stem Cells.  I have gotten all my sources, but I'm having lots of trouble supporting my thesis, which is should stem cells be allowed to be taken from aborted fetuses.  There doesn't seem to be to much information on the subject.

Complications

My new outside reading book is great!  It's about a upcoming intern surgeon, and the choices he has to make or follow.  I've always been interested in medicine, and my brother works at HCMC (Hennepin County Medical Center) so i guess it kind of runs in the family.  Hopefully this book will be an enjoyable read.

Day-To-Day

Class was pretty easy this week, but the substitute teacher wasn't very good.  We learned  about the difference between ethics and morals, which i had mixed up before the unit.  

All My Sons

Everytime i read that Joe killed 21 pilotes and still doesn't think he did wrong, i am shocked. The play had a deep and depressing aspect to it, but i expected more out of the book. Yes, the ending was sad, but over all the play dragged on without alot of variation. The mom got old to read about, always forcing her ideas on others, that Larry was alive. The theme that was evident in this was what to choose: family or strangers (nation). Joe choses