Crash Course(s)

As if thinking about electrolyte imbalance, calculating fluid deficits, and figuring how many grams per kilogram per day of amino acids a micro-preemie is getting isn’t enough to numb my brain, I’ve had crash courses in immigration law and real estate (NYC style) recently.

I’m still afraid to open the binder I received during my training session for volunteers for “Doctors of the World.” It’s filled with vast amounts of information including the complexities of our legal system as pertaining to how survivors of torture gain asylum in the U.S. The gentleman who dedicates his life as an attorney to this was kind enough to dumb down the language for us physicians. I can’t imagine wading through tax law or real estate law or any such ‘stuff.’ How did you do it Emma? (practice law, study law, not fall asleep while doing any of the aforementioned activities…kidding dear.) Emma first introduced me to the term amortization and related variants a while back which I tried to push out of my already-over-stuffed brain until it resurfaced at the other crash course I had recently – info for first-time home buyers in NYC. I went purely to learn and plan for the future – I left with a headache…