Need Not Be A Physicist To Be A Nurse...

It's true, you need not be a physicist to be a nurse. It's hard to imagine though, that we could do without MRI Scan in the hospital if someone with a particular illness needs it. We can be quite "helpless" in the absence of these "machines". It's even harder to imagine designing MRI machine without a physicist; really hard. You need not know Hamlet to be a nurse too, but yet you are bound to bump into Hamlet, as you take English as part of the prerequisite to enter the nursing curriculum.

So, why physics and nursing? What is the connection or disconnection, here.

What am I trying to say here. Perhaps, what I am endeavoring to elucidate is that, even-though the amount of physics/chemistry/Hamlet one need to know in order to function as a nurse/interior designer/janitor/president of the US may be minuscule compare to that of a trained physicist/engineer, learning about these subjects, provided there is a yearning, reflects the nature of our species, mankind. We as a species, regardless of professions, yearn to learn, irrespective of the presence of any practical implications.

One might ask, "so?".

Pondering Man @ 2 years Before 2012

I was near a lake. I pondered and thought of how similar modern man's condition is to Gilgamesh'; though we are not aspiring immortality, we in a way are pursuing immortality. Billionaires do so by making more money. Some women buy anti-aging products. Neighbors congratulate each others achievements, and try to outdo each other simultaneously. A Lexus is not enough, may be a Bentley. It seems the whisper is losing grip amidst the powerful winds in our secular world of "courteous gradation".

Augustus dediticum.

I received a lifestyle magazine from Acura a while back. In the magazine there were of course photos of Acura cars, but there were also a few stories on some people who changed their career directions. One former lawyer became a jeweler, and another former contractor became a medical doctor when he was already in his forties. What fascinates me is the stirring within their hearts before they made that bold leap to change, and to jump beyond the stratosphere. That stirrings though not everyone needs it, but if it does take place within one's bosom,interpreting the significance of its echo is only the beginning, the rest however is what differentiate between a bright ensign and a distant twinkle.

Digitalis Purpurae, Anyone?

Oiver Sacks wrote about ferns in his Oaxaca Journal; and Winston Churchill painted with brush and paint. Good or bad, the renditions, he painted. Man's interests or talents can't be contained in neatly measured boxes of secular artificiality. His talents and interests could and should be as broad and far reaching in accordance to the dictates of his/her spirit. So, it is for me, an RN writing about digitalis purpurae, sea snail, agalychnis callidryas, and papaver somniferum. If that is not enough, I might throw in superstring theory in the mix; but that might be too much, for now, anyway.
From botany to marine creatures, to tree frogs and back to botany; diverse, certainly, but they are "related to" nursing, in that the chemistry contributions from these plants and animals, are the droplets of "inspirations" for many of our modern medicine, and pharmacological-therapy. But this is where, I intend to make the crucial point, I enjoy the naturalist aspects of this sampling from nature irrespective to their relevance to the medical field; their medical relevance is a plus, rather than a must to hold my fascination of the beauty and secrets in Mother Nature.

To champion the romantic and ethereal, without abandoning the pragmatics, that is what I am trying to convey in a nutshell.