dang it... arbor vitae!

i'm just about saturated with anatomy stuff right now. we had a mock practical today. they sprang it on section B, so it wasn't really a surprise for us. we were in the lab early on thursday morning cos we wanted to take nice pictures of our pinned brains. then we saw that all these specimens were laid out. so we asked the manong about them and he told us that we were going to have a mock practical exam. yikes. but i don't mind it so much, cos at least i'll know how much more i need to study. urk. a couple of the items i didn't have a CLUE what the heck it was. sigh.

so besides that anatomy.. someone lent me grey's anatomy a while back. i just started watching it. heh. it's... interesting. we had a lecture today for perspectives of medicine. the topic was on 'the physician and the media'. interesting huh? i never thought we'd have this kinda lecture. she talked about communication mainly, and how sometimes the media romanticises medicine. she also impressed upon us the tremendous responsibility we're taking up. being entrusted with the lives of others. but if you think about it.. you also entrust your life to a pilot, to a fireman, to a nurse..

coming home and watching grey's kinda makes me want to be a surgeon. haha. but who knows if i'm really cut out for that.. there's still such a long road ahead of me. i'm not even past my third month of school. but then again.. i can't believe how fast this module is flying by! soon (hopefully!) i'll be done with school. heh. thinking about the future is a bit overwhelming though. but as pastor B once said (and i'm paraphrasing here) knowing that you are where God placed you will help you get through it. a week or so back, a classmate of mine sent this article to my section. it was talking about the vast drain of the medical/healthcare related people who are leaving philippines each year. it was definately another reminder how real this problem is.. i wonder how many of my classmates will still be here a decade or so down the road..