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Sat Jan 31 15:29:50 GMT 2009

Just because a crisis starts in mid-life...  :-)Anyway I wasn't particularly
thinking about list members.  Perhaps its a UK think but there are a good
number of doctors who seem to suddenly 'acquire' a massive Ducatti, BMW or
other over-powered vehicle somewhere in their 5th or 6th decades and shortly
thereafter find themselves having all their clothes cut off and a junior
resident asking them if they can squeeze their finger!
Karim

2009/1/31 <KMATTOX at aol.com>

> By my calculations, Karim, most of the surgeons you are referring to
> probably passed their "mid-life" (middle age crazies), at least 20-30 years
> ago  and
> are now in their reflective years.   However they are still  participating
> in
> the care of large volumes of cases, often very complex cases,  with very
> competitive and pace setting results.
>
> small "k" and beyond the needs of the mid life identity crises.
>
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> In a message dated 1/31/2009 9:04:43 A.M. Central Standard Time,
> karimbrohi at gmail.com writes:
>
> These  are the big flails with chest wall
> compromise, on ventilators for their  pulmonary contusion/subsequent ARDS,
> and who may have subsequent  restrictive pulmonary function long-term.
>  (Not
> surgeons suffering  from mid-life crises!)K
>
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