[pachyderm]

TODAY, after four arduous years of examinations, graduating medical doctors will report to their residency programs. Armed with stethoscopes and scalpels, they’re preparing to lead the charge against disease in its ravaging, chimerical forms. They carry with them the classic tomes: Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine and Gray’s Anatomy. But I have an unlikely addition for their mental rucksacks: “Grimm’s Fairy Tales.”

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The practice of medicine bestows the sacred privilege to ask about the unmentionable. But what happens when the door to Bluebeard’s horror chamber opens, and the bloody secrets spill onto your aseptic field of study? How do you process the pain of your patients?

I found my way back to stories. The Grimm fairy tales once seemed as if they took place in lands far, far away, but I see them now in my everyday hospital rotations. I’ve met the eternal cast of characters. I’ve taken down their histories (the abandoned prince, the barren couple) or seen their handiwork (the evil stepmother, the lecherous king).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/op...ml?ref=opinion

[Perna]

I'm all for breadth and depth in studying any subject; believe everything is connected to everything else and being able to get more, different perspectives is helpful.

[Sanada]

If one seee's the gimm fairy tale's in a hospital; then the doctors are breaking the Hypocratic oath.
All doctors have to take an oath to only do the're best to help and heal.

If the hospitals have got fairy tale characters walking around, then its not a hhospital in the general sense of the word.

The Hypocratic oath is the most important oath a doctor can take.

Is it the staff or the paitents that you see in the hospital as being meta's for the Grimm Tales.