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acchaladka31 karma

Hey, Dave Maurer, friend and colleague of my pops from his Chicago days. You might enjoy this radio show discussion from Chicago in the late fifties if i remember correctly.

Side story: Dave was apparently so enraged by the movie The String stealing his research that he snuck a tape recorder in to a theater and used it as evidence in a copyright infringement suit. Won a big settlement and did okay from his academic work. That success didn't stop him from creating a real noir ending for himself when he shot himself rather than go through the horrors of 1960s-70s cancer treatment.

acchaladka11 karma

And when you work at a larger organization where there's always going to be one asshole around? What then?

acchaladka6 karma

There's a great Oliver Sacks essay I think in his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, where he profiles a surgeon who has Tourette's or OCD or a combination, and flies his Cessna a few times a week as parts of his rounds. Worth finding if you don't know it.

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Agree totally as a heart failure patient with only two years experience. I'd agree to the point where I'd say this statement belongs in an edit in your original post maybe even.

Buddy.

Guy.

;)

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Thanks man! I've been part of the way down that "will i wake up in the morning, meh, it's of my control" road you've basically camped in, and i have those pictures of more black and blue than arm. Yet i was asymptomatic all the way, didn't even understand why i was stuck in the ICU bed for a week prior until i saw the guy wheeled in who looked like a pale zombie and he turned out to have an EJ higher than me. I felt fine, what's the deal man! You started punching me in the chest and wut, stahhhp, doctors.

Except you, cute one. Let's flirt.

I'm again contemplating going vegetarian or vegan at the moment because of this thread; thanks for a super interesting read. I take it your doc started the process immediately after your initial meeting.... not in 2014 but as soon as you got on the transplant list.