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New Year

New Year

Living in Cambodia one faces several dilemmas.  My current one, with the New Year upon us our thoughts center on takes us in different venues and cultural phenomena.  January multiple New Years celebrates the international New Year.  February the Chinese take the stage with their New Year.  Then comes March with a very small segment of the society celebrating the vernal equinox as New Year as takes place in Iran and other parts of the world.  The biggest New Year event comes in April with Khmer New Year.  Since 4 New Years are celebrated in one 12-month period, I wonder does time here in Cambodia speed by 4 times faster.  Or perhaps since four month of the year are new year celebrations maybe time goes by at 1/3 the pace of other countries.  Then one has more opportunity to create new years resolutions and subsequently fracture the resolve.  So now I look to resolve my dilemma from Cambodia by wishing you a Happy Happy Happy Happy New New New New Year Year Year Year.  

LEFT, RIGHT?

Left, Right?

If you do not come right now you will be left out.  Turn left, right?  .  

 In the human body ordinarily the heart is on the left, the spleen is on the left, 

the liver is on the right and the appendix is on the right.   

So as physicians examine a patient they expect the heart to be in the left chest.   

When the heart is not heard on the left one wonders several things.  

 Is my stethoscope working correctly?  Is the patient so obese that the sounds are difficult to hear?  

 Are the lungs so expanded that the heart sounds are inaudible?  

 Then the surprise comes when the heart is heard on the right side.  

 Dextrocardia-, I am not sure of the incidence in the population, 

but many physicians never see a patient with such.   

So the other day I had a little fun mentoring a couple of medical students who 

examined a patient who heart was on the right.   

One of the students rather quickly identified the situation.   

The other student thought the stethoscope was not working properly.

As we look around our world we become accustom to the commonplace and orderliness of life.  

 On occasion we get zingers that make us think, wake us up or send us on a different path.   

We often think we are so right that we can be left behind. 

Butt then my right behind is right so why should it be left?