The Kid is reading, among other things, The Fortean Times Book of Strange Deaths. He said to me last night after my first med-surg exam, over which I was having mild to massive anxiety, "Mom, you'd better read this; I don't want you to make the same mistake.""A newborn baby in a Chicago hospital came to an abrupt end when someone accidentally connected the child's heart monitor cables attached to electrodes on the chest and abdomen directly to the mains. Twelve day old Stratton Vasilakos died instantly. Apparently this was caused by a design fault which had resulted in several previous accidents but was supposed to have been corrected."
Somehow that wasn't really the anxiety relief, nor the vote of confidence, I was looking for.
By the way, did you know that "Primum no nocere" is not even in the Hippocratic Oath? I'm no doctor so it doesn't really matter. Interesting, nonetheless. It's actually attributed to the Roman physician, Galen.
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