{"id":1239,"date":"2007-12-06T23:50:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T03:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/12\/06\/emergency-room-week\/"},"modified":"2011-04-23T19:09:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T19:09:49","slug":"emergency-room-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"The emergency room week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"cimg9749.JPG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/cimg9749.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 135px; height: 156px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/cimg9749.JPG\" alt=\"cimg9749.JPG\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"1780\" height=\"2704\" class=\"left\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m going to dedicate this week as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=29159\">the emergency<\/a> room: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=1236\">visited it again on Wednesday<\/a>.\u00a0 As if it&#8217;s not dramatic enough, I ran into one of my tennis buddies there: needing stitch on his chin &#8211; obviously trying to dive for a point.\u00a0<br \/>\nPumpkin always chuckles when I ran into someone somewhere, because she firmly believe that I knew half the tennis players in NY and half Chinese populace in the USA.<br \/>\nGosh, being a doctor is not at all pleasant.\u00a0 It&#8217;s respectable and almost noble, but very stressful. Given the medical system in the US, it&#8217;s down right rotten, they might spent half of their time fighting the HMOs than cure the ill and sick.\u00a0 The return of their investment &#8211; longer school, residency and malpractice insurance.. it isn&#8217;t worth it any more. The only partially joyous one is OB\/GY when part of their duty is delivering babies, which is the only happy occasion ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to dedicate this week as the emergency room: visited it again on Wednesday.\u00a0 As if it&#8217;s not dramatic enough, I ran into one of my tennis buddies there: needing stitch on his chin &#8211; obviously trying to dive for a point.\u00a0 Pumpkin always chuckles when I ran into someone somewhere, because she firmly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}