on "better" and things

another weekend gone. so life casually glides pass without me noticing. i endeavour to write my life down for the record. see how long i can keep this new year resolution! i've finished reading "better" by Atul Gawande. a good book. quite inspiring but slightly preachy. i suppose that's americans for you. it talks about doctoring. if you aren't a doctor, i think you might find it a bit narcissistic. you can tell he's really proud of being one. i never really thought of my patients' life hanging on the balance by my decisions. as a shrinkwannabe, it's not truly applicable that way. but i guess thinking about whether to hospitalise someone against their will, whether to inject someone when they fight you, all of that are ethical decisions unique to doctors. i would have thought that each field have their own dilemmas. i'm sure the IT field have to grapple with issues of artificial intelligence, privacy and so on. with the advent of PDAs, cell phones, they are like electronic extensions of oneself! no wonder futurologists predicts that we would be able to download/ backup/ update our souls in the next 20 or 30 years!