Time after time

Some people believe that without history, our lives amount to nothing. At some point we al have to choose: do we fall back on what we know, or do we step forward to something new? A patient's history is as important as their symptoms. It's what helps the doctors to decide if heart burn is a heart attack... if a headache is a tumor. Sometimes patients try to re-write their own histories. They'll claim they don't smoke, or forget to mention certain drugs... which in surgery can be the kiss of death. We can ignore all we want, but our history eventually always comes to haunt us.

It's hard not to be hunted by our past. Our history is what shapes us... Our history resurface time after time. So we have to remember sometimes the most important history is the history we are making today...