All the years I spent watching M*A*S*H taught me alot, including that sometimes the pt. dies, despite your best efforts and that it is OK to be upset, but that you need to pull up the big girl panties and get yourself back in the fight to save another life; that sometimes gallows humor is the only way to deal with the stress and that sometimes pts. touch us despite our best effort to remain detached; that sometimes it is OK to cry,to scream, to hate life. But most of all that it does not make us weaker to rely on others, that the stongest among us are strong because they are leaning on one another!