internal strengh

this blog is called intern al angst, for a reason.a reason which is obvious to most people who have been interns,or are interns. internship is the interim period between being a medical student and a registered medical practitioner.
we r the overworked,un appreciated,unpaid..work force..
AH the angst is palpable!!
yet there r moments when ther is a huge sense of satisfaction.
tomorrow is 11 july,last year this day was the gruesome train blasts in bombay.
i remember myself a final year medical student,sitting in the library,when the news was being broadcast over the radio..
hoards and hoards of casualties,the injured,the dead,and their relatives.flooded the hospital.
All of us went to the emergency services..wanting to help..to do something..anything..but sadly were untrained,un skilled. All the interns were mobilised to help..and we tried, as mere final year students,to do what we could.
there was a sense of being impotent.All the bookish knowledge never put to practice.
But..today,as an intern in the surgical unit,i know that god forbid if something similar were to happen this year ..or in years to come..I CAN HELP.That is internal strengh..it is not a sense of self importance,not even power..it is just a sense of satisfaction..