Saturday, November 06, 2004
HIGHER LEARNING?
The other day, we were watching ER. This used to be one of my favorite shows, but I honestly haven't seen a single episode since Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards, aka Goose) died on the show. Now, the Indian girl from "Bend It Like Becham", the guy from "A Walk To Remember" and "Once and Again", and the daughter from "Roseanne" are all on the show. When did that happen?
Anyway, the point is that they had a guy on this episode who was only interested in doing research and uncovering the chemical reactions that were going on the body, even while they were working on a trauma victim. As expected, the doctors got upset at the questions about "drawing an oxygen molecule" or "write out the chemical reaction" and instead opted to treat the patient without worry about it.
But Karena and I realized that after some thinking, we WERE able to draw an oxygen molecule and we DID understand the chemical reaction he wrote out because we were forced to take so many classes on biology, chemistry, and biochemistry. But honestly, we NEVER, EVER use it in real life for our profession. What a waste of time!
But I guess it makes for good fun at parties! Um ... yeah.
The other day, we were watching ER. This used to be one of my favorite shows, but I honestly haven't seen a single episode since Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards, aka Goose) died on the show. Now, the Indian girl from "Bend It Like Becham", the guy from "A Walk To Remember" and "Once and Again", and the daughter from "Roseanne" are all on the show. When did that happen?
Anyway, the point is that they had a guy on this episode who was only interested in doing research and uncovering the chemical reactions that were going on the body, even while they were working on a trauma victim. As expected, the doctors got upset at the questions about "drawing an oxygen molecule" or "write out the chemical reaction" and instead opted to treat the patient without worry about it.
But Karena and I realized that after some thinking, we WERE able to draw an oxygen molecule and we DID understand the chemical reaction he wrote out because we were forced to take so many classes on biology, chemistry, and biochemistry. But honestly, we NEVER, EVER use it in real life for our profession. What a waste of time!
But I guess it makes for good fun at parties! Um ... yeah.
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