The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston

It was a wet and grey day in downtown Boston. It was reported on the six o'clock news that a record 2.7 inches of rain fell on the city that day. Much of it seemed to have fallen on me as I drove in from the suburbs. I had come all this way on a long anticipated holiday to see 'The Fall' in New England but there was something about the rain that was strangely reminiscent of our home grown variety in Wales. Should I perhaps have stayed at home with some videos and books? It would certainly have been cheaper. I had arranged to visit the 'Eye and Ear' some weeks before. The link being one of my consultant colleagues who had undergone some of his training as a resident there many years before, under the guidance of the famous Dr. Harold Schucneckt. I wanted to see what things were like in hospitals and operating theatres and get a taste of the American nursing and healthcare system.