My Adventure
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop." — Lewis Carroll i'm going through life , writing the best or the worst of it to remind my self that i lived it till the End before it stops !
lundi 18 mai 2015
My experience in University Hospital Zurich - neurosurgery department
Seeing other ways of how to practice your profession is a very useful thing.
Although many doctors in Zurich university hospital did not understand why i am coming for a week observer-ship, i bet even some think it is stupid although none said so, but comparing between what i have seen always in our hospital and what I've seen here was quite a useful experience for me.
I got to know why this is one of the best departments of neurosurgery, the secret is simple but also difficult to achieve. lets see what i have learned through my week here ;
1- Time Concept : Everyone without exception respect the time , patients and medical team altogether, the day is divided in a way that you don't leave a space for lost time , from 7:30 am to 17:30 every job is known , each mission is precised.
2- Team work : in order to be effective as they are here you have to be an element of a team that all move together as one movement and trust each other, multi-specialty meeting to discuss everything that matters. Also i had the chance to see the Trauma team in one of the emergency cases , and i know it may seem common sense but i was amazed how fast and organized the whole team was, everyone knew what to do and when to do it , the process of saving a patient life and primary assessment was one of the shortest that i ever saw in my life. Although i was a part of the catastrophe unit in an organization.
3- Means : well i have to mention that money can bring happiness , having all the means under your hand change completely the medical practice efficiency , instead of wasting your time finding a spot for ur patient to do a CT scan or an MRI, here everything pass smoothly. from the available elevators to the operation simulation equipment , all is there !
4- Documentation : the thing that all European doctors are complaining from , however , i find it quite useful. everything should be documented the whole time . This allows other team members to know what you did with the patients and follow up afterword , it also allow to minimize the error factor and improve the failures later on.
5- Explaining to the patient : this might have a cultural aspect , but Swiss patients need to understand all the details of their treatment and disease , and doctors provide this with extreme patience and professionalism. some doctors stays with the patient over an hour to answer all the questions and make sure that they are comfortable with the treatment plan.
6- Finally , the team is a huge mixture of nationalities , races , religions and gender , however they keep good relationship between them and you can feel the positive harmony.
jeudi 30 avril 2015
When i get lost !
Fatin Nabil Photography - Berlin |
i keep meeting these people all over the world , different shapes, races, tongs and religions , they always help with a smile for nothing in return ! these people are those who make our world a better place !
I get lost a lot , not because i am bad in directions but because i move to new places frequently, i change cities where i work/study , i travel much and i keep exploring where i live. This is why i always get lost ! and whenever i am looking around me there will be i find someone .
i would like to mention here two wonderful stories : The first was in Chefchaouen the Moroccan blue wonderful city i was leaving the coffee when i asked the waiter about a specific spot , he told me his shift was over and he can walk me there , we walked until the fountain i was looking for , he made sure i knew the history of the place together with the nice restaurants to visit there then he left. Next day as chefchaouen is a small city , i met him again but he was going with friends to hike to the Achkour waterfalls he invited me to the hike , we went as a big group and since then we became good friends , i never went back to the city again but it was one of these times when i was grateful i got lost !
Chefchaouen |
i can tell you hundreds of stories .. just to tell you that we have good in this world , so be that person , be the one who show people the road without asking for something in return !
dimanche 26 avril 2015
Bremen
Bremen is a nice small city in the northwest of germany. Although it is small but it has a long history specially in the last century.
The city is calm , and even in the rush hours when everyone is trying to catch something you do not feel stressed at all. People are very simple , nice and helpful.
The main place to visit is the old city ( Altstadts) surrounded with the WESER River.
Transportation in Bremen is very easy and fast , although if u have a bike the whole city is well adapted for bikers with special parking areas and bike-lines. However, there is no public bike rental as the other bigger cities in Germany. If u you are staying for some days you will find shops for bike rental all arround the city.
Bremen is very artistic city, when u visit it , you can understand very well why the four animals wanted to go there to perform music ! Street musicians , Human status and lovely sculptures are everywhere around the city.
The Town Musicians |
The City is very green and full of Gardens, flowers and rivers. the best time to visit is probably in summer time, or spring if you are not allergic :).
St Peter's Cathedral (13th century) |
Bremen is a Bike friendly city |
Human status |
Swineherd and pigs sculpture in Bremen |
If you have time it would eb also interesting to visit the Universum Science Center a science interactive center with more than 250 Exhibits.
Finally , you can get to Bremen by train or bus and also by airplane. Bremen airport receives low cost airlines . so it is not expensive to see Bremen !
mardi 30 décembre 2014
fernando pessoa
Fernando pessoa - picture from : praler.org |
أنطونيو فرناندو نوغيرا دي سيابرا بيسوا (13 يونيو 1888–30 نوفمبر 1935) هو شاعر، وكاتب وناقد أدبي، ومترجم وفيلسوف برتغالي، ويوصف بأنه واحد من أهم الشخصيات الأدبية في القرن العشرين، وواحد من أعظم شعراء اللغة البرتغالية، كما أنه كتب وترجم من اللغة الإنجليزية والفرنسية.
أمضى حياته موظفاً في شركة للشحن البحري في لشبونة اثر طفولة وصباً قضاهما في أفريقيا الجنوبية حيث درس الانكليزية.
يعتبر شعره عصياً على التصنيف وإن كان يمت الى السوريالية البدئية بأكثر من صلة، بل تنبع من شخصيته نفسها، هذه الشخصية الغريبة المدهشة التي بدت دائماً وكأنها في حال بحث عن الذات. في حال مطاردة لهوية، حقيقية أو مفترضة... وكأن الشاعر كان لا يتوقف عن التساؤل بينه وبين نفسه، وفي شعره خصوصاً: من أنا؟ من تراني أكون. ولعل من الصعب جداً تصور أن بيسوا عرف كيف يجيب عن هذا السؤال في شعره أو في حياته.
كتب مؤلفاته بإسمه بالإضافة الى العديد من الأسماء الأخرى ، كان يعيش تحت كل اسم حالة معينة يكتب عنها و سمى اسمائه " heteronames " حيث كان أولها في عمر السادسه " فارس السلام " تلاه العديد من الاسماء الاخرى التي و صلت الى 73 اسما .
لم يعد الشاعر البرتغالي فرناندو بيسوا غريباً عن القارئ العربي، إذ عديدة هي الترجمات التي نجدها اليوم، لهذا الشاعر الذي وسم وحده، تاريخ الشعر البرتغالي، في النصف الأول من القرن العشرين، أكان ذلك عبر اسمه الفردي أم عبر أحد أسمائه البديلة.
أترككم مع بعض مقتطفات شعره :
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Alberto Caeiro, "The Keeper of Herds" |
آه! لو يمكنني أن أكونك، وأبقى أنا نفسي!
لو أملك لا وعيك السعيد
ووعي ذلك! أيتها الأغنية!
أيتها الحقول! أيتها السماء! العِلمُ
لو أملك لا وعيك السعيد
ووعي ذلك! أيتها الأغنية!
أيتها الحقول! أيتها السماء! العِلمُ
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Álvaro de Campos, "The Tobacco Shop" |
أحيانا أنا الإله الذي أحمله داخلي
حينذاك أكون الإله والمؤمن والصلاة
والصورة العاجية
حيث ننسى هذا الإله.
أحيانا لا أزيد أكثر عن ملحد
بهذا الإله الشخصي الذي أكونه في نشوتي.
أتأمل في داخلي سماء بأسرها
وهي ليس سوى سماء عالية وفارغة.
حينذاك أكون الإله والمؤمن والصلاة
والصورة العاجية
حيث ننسى هذا الإله.
أحيانا لا أزيد أكثر عن ملحد
بهذا الإله الشخصي الذي أكونه في نشوتي.
أتأمل في داخلي سماء بأسرها
وهي ليس سوى سماء عالية وفارغة.
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Fernando Pessoa-himself, "Autopsychography" |
jeudi 2 octobre 2014
Go away !
Why is't Hard sometime to get rid of someone ?
some people just stuck in your life and no matter what you did they still there , maybe because you have a multi-direction network with them!
sometimes it is also because a part of us want that one to be there , even if the negative in his presence is more than the positive he would bring , we just feel we need them in our life, we can survive without them for sure ,but we want them to be in , and we want them to be out !
as this man in the picture told me : just take your photo and Go away !
jeudi 25 septembre 2014
Sudan : The Standardized Beauty
Image: Duke Media. |
As everywhere around the globe these days , there is a standardizing for beauty , we have an image that everyone wants to look like, and it's the same in Sudan.
Talking with many females during my stay there and being a part of a wedding preparation made me understand a little bit about the beauty standards in a city like Khartoum, a pretty girl is a light skin girl , which means in a city in the middle of the African continent with hot climate adding to this of course the African genes that has much melanin in it , girls has to do much work to keep their skin light ! so starting by using natural masks , covering the face and the hands , arriving to using chemical products based on cortisone that has as secondary effect the "de-pigmentation" which means taking the normal color from the skin !
but it's not just the skin , it goes to the eyebrows , the hair, the nails , even the color of the skin on the articulations like knee and elbow which are anatomically speaking darker in all races !
you walk in the street , you see girls looks like each other , the identity is gone because we are trying to reach a " perfect" image made by society or media , you open the Sudanese TV, all female presenters are looking alike , all from the same "type " of beauty !
I see that black skin has a unique charm , makes the eyes more expressive , more pure and more resistant to skin diseases as well !
Dark skin beauty was also not accepted in several countries around the world especially in American , in Europe as well and now it's moving to Arabic countries with mixed Arabic African genes though we don't have their problems , environment or culture !
i recommend watching the documentary " Dark Girls " : http://officialdarkgirlsmovie.com/
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