besides the usual med subjects, we also have these lesser weighted subjects such as preventive medicine, human life cycle, patient-doctor and perspectives.
coming here, i told myself not to become immune to the need around me. yet my eyes seem to skim over the slum areas, the children running naked and playing in inky black water saturated with micro-organisms after a storm, the people who walk between cars at a stoplight hoping for a sale.
i was reading a short devotional the day before and the main crux was a reminder of God's purpose for me. i think it's so easy to forget what's going on outside the classroom. hearing myself and others whine [ok maybe not whine, but talk about VERY often] about work and all that narrows one's view very quickly.
the perspectives lecture we just had was on 'the doctor as a medical misisonary'. for this module we've been having a series of lectures on 'the doctor as ...' the doctor who spoke has spent the last 18 years in banaue, ifugao. [that's the province where the rice terraces are] i never thought i'd actually get a lecture on this in school. haha. slightly bizarre.. but a good sort of bizarre.
he showed us pictures of the hospital, with really old but servicable equipment. it was so exciting to see and hear about his experience working and heading a hospital in such a rural area. it's situated high up in the mountains and their ambulance is a long stick with a piece of cloth tied to it. that's how the sick are transported to the hospital from the villages higher up in the mountain. wow. i can't wait to graduate!
coming here, i told myself not to become immune to the need around me. yet my eyes seem to skim over the slum areas, the children running naked and playing in inky black water saturated with micro-organisms after a storm, the people who walk between cars at a stoplight hoping for a sale.
i was reading a short devotional the day before and the main crux was a reminder of God's purpose for me. i think it's so easy to forget what's going on outside the classroom. hearing myself and others whine [ok maybe not whine, but talk about VERY often] about work and all that narrows one's view very quickly.
the perspectives lecture we just had was on 'the doctor as a medical misisonary'. for this module we've been having a series of lectures on 'the doctor as ...' the doctor who spoke has spent the last 18 years in banaue, ifugao. [that's the province where the rice terraces are] i never thought i'd actually get a lecture on this in school. haha. slightly bizarre.. but a good sort of bizarre.
he showed us pictures of the hospital, with really old but servicable equipment. it was so exciting to see and hear about his experience working and heading a hospital in such a rural area. it's situated high up in the mountains and their ambulance is a long stick with a piece of cloth tied to it. that's how the sick are transported to the hospital from the villages higher up in the mountain. wow. i can't wait to graduate!
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