Monday, March 8, 2010

My inspirational writing trip to the hospital.

2 male nurses are on their lunch break. One of them is talking about how they arent any manly scrubs out on the market. No barbed wire or machine gun patterns.. Just flowers and teddy bears.

A surgeon approaches a grieving family. Without words, he takes off his surgeon cap, and tells them that their child didn't make it. They woman begins crying and she is caught by her husband as she collapses to the floor. Their other child, a teenage boy, sits watching his parents break down. All he does is turn his headphones louder.

How easy is it to impersonate a doctor? All you would need is a white lab coat, and some khakis.

"Say what you mean and mean what you say", said the woman on her cell phone as she walks past me.

In the ER. I'm blending in, watching the sick and old. I'm trying, just by watching, to figure out their stories. The man with the solemn look on his face is no doubt waiting for his young daughter, She dislocated her shoulder during a scramble at a soccer game.