Reading this topic has me reliving hospitals of the 70's and shaking my head at the memories.
In truth, even today doctors have total disregard for rules and regs. Common sense is often not common among the MD and PhD crowd. (No offense to any of my learned colleagues...) But, the mindset is much as it was back then. The rules do not apply to me. In the sixties and seventies, toking on a cig in ICU was common practice even with O2 in use. Today, Docs ignore isolation practices and TB negative pressure rooms and just stroll right on in as if they're immune to anything.
The talk about the cross of Hematology and Psychology is not really that improbably in my mind. The specialty of Hematology today often encompasses Oncology where Psychiatric practice is highly valuable. Dealing with the chronically ill and dying requires special skills. Yeah, I know, this is 2005 and that was the 70's. But, DS was also a television show where Julia was a doctor, period. Didn't matter what she really was trained to do. All skills were fair game. Docs have to learn it all before they can specialize, so the adage of 'if you've done it once you can do it again' seems to have been put to the test.
All this talk about the old hospital days is making me wonder just how we survived!!
Dawn
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