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I survived a whole day of school, followed immediately by a whole night at the hospital and after ~24h I still think this OB/GYN thing is pretty cool. It might be a sleep deprivation talking, but I think it's a good sign... babies! moms! blood, epidurals, ceseareans, hovering fathers, first cries, and seeing a woman look into her infant's eyes ( Read more... ) -
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So a quick update. There was that big exam, then there was the 6 weeks on psychiatry. I worked in a locked unit where many of the patients were confined to a single hospital floor often for a week or more at the discretion of the psychiatrists. ( It was a humbling rotation to have first... ) -
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Today I got to announce to my class both the social medicine talk on LGBT issues in the Bronx and a Christian Fellowship talk by a doctor who founded a community clinic after seriously asking the good Samaritan question, who are my neighbors? They both got good turnout. I spent my time at the Christian fellowship one which I'd helped organize. I ( Read more... ) -
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Yesterday we had our third exam of the semester. There were 23 lectures, a ream of powerpoint slides, and a 78 page review sheet. I worked hard to get the information, but it really is a deluge and it's hard to just keep one's head above water. Studying with a group of kind and brilliant people has helped tremendously this semester and talking ( Read more... ) -
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In one of the hostels I picked up a copy of the kite runner and was engrossed--It is a portrait of a man haunted by the sins of his childhood in Afghanistan. Khaled Hosseini succeeds in writing a powerful family story with complex, burdened characters, lovingly rendered and set in the context of contemporary Afghanistan ( Read more... ) -
love and business from a rural midwife...
I was hanging out with a midwife in Guatemala, Doña Ana. She herself has had a tough life. She started working before she was 10 trying to feed her younger brothers, and some days she would go without food so they could eat, but often they would cry because of the hunger. She got married at 15 to get away from the poverty of her mother´s house ( Read more... ) -
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Ok it´s now the third weekend in Guatemala. We´re planning a trip out the the black volcanic sand beaches of the pacific coast for this weekend. I wanted to post more along the way, but I´ve been running around the country a bit much. The first weekend we got rolled into a trip out to Semuc Champey that some of the other students had put ( Read more... ) -
It's like exams are this blockage that a whole lot of life builds up behind...
Suddenly they're over and life comes pouring through.
I finished my test and rode into the city with friends for dinner and Avenue Q, which is fantastic. ( denied my heritage, cut my hair, and loitered in Philadelphia ) -
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I'm 25. That's a quarter of a century! I've been around for a fraction of a historically meaningful chunk of time. Weird. I feel blessed to have been around so long and blessed that I get to be around going forward ( Read more... )