Friday's Dispatch

• The music of today which kids will have in their future to remind them of their past is very sad. The more vapid, unoriginal and vacuous it is- the more successful it will be. A friends teenager was riding in my car recently. When referring to a song playing on the radio I said,"Oh, there's new Lady Gaga." Impressed, she said,"I'm impressed. You listen to Gaga? No," I replied honestly. "How did you know it was her then? It sounds exactly like everything else I've heard them say was hers- except different. Her music is so pervasive I must have heard everything old of hers by just catching it here and there. So, you don't even like her then? No I do not. Why? Because she's awful..."




• Yeah, it pretty much devolved into a generational culture clash at that point.




• A recent patients family was pretty severely in a state of denial regarding their impending loss until essentially the moment the patient expired then, they seemed oddly OK.




• If you loved me, you'd buy me the Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books Of The Western World set of 54 bookesses.




• At breakfast which I had in my scrubs this morning the cashier said,"Oh, I bet you're ready to hit the bed after a night shift in the ER. No, I do hospice. Oh, you look just like a guy who works in the ER at the hospital." Poor guy I thought. "He's quite a bit shorter though I think, but he does look a lot like you." Poor, poor guy.