Search for meaning in Medicine - email from Piyusha Atapattu

Doctors willing to heal themselves can help the medical profession recover from its own illness.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/medicines-search-for-meaning/

Being rich and being poor - email from Kitta Rajaratnam

 

A Swami was having a conversation
with Lord Shiva one day and said.

'Lord, I would like to know what
Heaven and Hell are like.


Lord Shiva led the Swami to two
doors.

He opened one of the doors and the
Swami looked in.

In the middle of the room was a large round table.

In the middle of the table was a large pot
of stew, which smelled delicious and
made the Swami's mouth water.

The people sitting around the table
were thin and sickly. They appeared to
be famished.

They were holding spoons with very long handles that
were strapped to their arms and each found it possible to reach into the pot
of stew and take a spoonful.

But because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the
spoons back into their mouths.

The Swami shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering.

Lord Shiva said, 'You have seen Hell.

They went to the next room and
opened the door.

It was exactly the same as the first one. There was the
large round table with the large pot of stew which made the holy man's mouth
water.

The people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons,

but here the people were well nourished and
plump, laughing and talking.

The Swami said, 'I don't understand.'

'It is simple,' said Lord Shiva..

'It requires but one skill.

You see they have learned to feed each
other, while the greedy think only
of themselves.'

When Lord Shiva created the world, He was
thinking of you. It's estimated 93%
won't forward this. If you are one of
the 7% who will, forward this with the
title '7%'.

I'm in the 7%

Remember that I will always share
my spoon with you !

HAVE A GREAT DAY

When I'm 64- The Beatles with lyrics

Click on the following web-link. Beautiful song to sing along. Words appear on the screen. You will be perfect the third time you join in the singing.

http://youtu.be/ldIfhc1pJpk

Another version with singing in harmony:-
http://youtu.be/uHGe09wXwX0

Irish medical dictionary - email from jksw

 Irish Medical Dictionary

 

Irish Medical Dictionary The Irish have the lowest stress rate because they do not take medical terminology seriously You are going to die anyway, so live life Medical Term Irish Definition Artery - The study of paintings Bacteria - Back door to cafeteria Barium - What doctors do when patients die Benign - What you be, after you be eight Caesarean Section - A neighbourhood in Rome Cat scan - Searching for Kitty Cauterize - Made eye contact with her Colic - A sheep dog Coma - A punctuation mark Dilate - To live long Enema - Not a friend Fester - Quicker than someone else Fibula - A small lie Impotent - Distinguished, well known Labour Pain - Getting hurt at work Medical Staff - A Doctor's cane Morbid - A higher offer Nitrates - Rates of Pay for Working at Night, Normally more money than Days Node - I knew it Outpatient - A person who has fainted Pelvis - Second cousin to Elvis Post Operative - A letter carrier Recovery Room - Place to do upholstery Rectum - Nearly killed him Secretion - Hiding something Seizure - Roman Emperor Tablet - A small table Terminal Illness - Getting sick at the airport Tumour - One plus one more Urine - Opposite of you're out

To all the girls I loved before

A song sung with gusto at both the CoMSAA get togethers.

‘To all the girls I loved before’   

  Click on each of the links below to listen to this popular hit:-

1. http://youtu.be/Qp9hBPwWqTk

      2. http://youtu.be/51tvZnkn5V8 - With words

Colombo Medical School Alumni Association, CoMSAA, get together, 7/8 September 2013 at the 'Blue Waters', Wadduwa, Sri Lanka.

To get your pictures of the get-together click on the link below. Please keep clicking on the 'older posts' at the bottom right hand corner of each page of the web-link below, to view all the past postings.

http//www.comsaa.blogspot.com

Pictures of Sri Lanka - email from jksw

Introduction to Sri Lanka The pictures here begin with Colombo , move south to Galle , north to the high country, farther north to Kandy and its environs, and farther north still to the country's great archaeological sites.  For more on the status of highland paddy, see Continuity and Change in the Paddy Lands of the Kandy District. Colombo (64 pictures)  Colombo 2 (20 pictures)  Galle (44 pictures)  Nuwara Eliya (48 pictures)  Tea Country (48 pictures)  Highland Subsistence (19 pictures)  Kandy and the Temple of the Tooth (27 pictures)  Kandy: Palaces and Medamahanuwara (11 pictures)  Kandy: Traditional Houses (9 pictures)  Kandy: British Infrastructure (10 pictures)  Kandy: Colonist Life (25 pictures)  Kandy: British Institutions (23 pictures)  Kandy: Christian Cemeteries (20 pictures)  Kandy: Now (17 pictures)  Hantane (27 pictures)  Talatu Oya (12 pictures)  Peradeniya (19 pictures)  Paingamuwa (17 pictures)  Mahaweli Ferry (6 pictures)  Lankatilaka (27 pictures)  Gadaladeniya (17 pictures)  Embekke (17 pictures)  Kadugannawa and Balana (14 pictures)  Gampola (15 pictures)  Atabage (5 pictures)  Loolecondera (10 pictures)  Gurugal Oya (12 pictures)  Minipe (13 pictures)  Lamesuriyagama (39 pictures)  Elephant Power (12 pictures)  Town and Country (39 pictures)  Anuradhapura (37 pictures)  Polonnuwara (26 pictures)  Sigiriya (18 pictures)  Trincomalee (13 pictures)