การจัดการชีวิตและอาชีพในห้องผ่าตัด : หน้า 107/376

Knowledge and Career and helpful this simple procedure is. I started to do this while on surgery, which, of all my "rotations" has the longest hours, and many times no sleep for long periods of time. Sometimes, I would want to sleep so much, but still had several hours of work to do before I could go home. I feel that my meditation practice helped me to endure those times. 107 In addition, one important aspect of working in surgery is being in the operating room. In the operating room, one very important concept is keeping “a sterile field”. Basically, this means that once you have cleaned your arms and hands, and have put on gowns and gloves, you are "sterile". The patient is also sterile. Thus, one cannot “break the sterile field" by touching non-sterile objects, including your face, legs, or anything else but the patient. I feel that the sort of concentration and