Missionary Orthopod in the Making

So I passed my finals but I’m not quite free yet. On top of being on our 1st year clinical rotations in the hospital, we also have to practice for our clinical skills exam. For this exam, you and your partner need to perform different clinical skills like taking a blood pressure, observing the retina […]

About 2 days ago, I was in the hospital coming back from lunch. As I was waiting for the elevator to get to my floor, the doors opened at a lower floor and a man walked on, looking quite depressed. The only other people on the elevator besides me and that guy was a nurse. […]

The title of this post pretty much sums up what I haven’t done while I have been in the hospital for a 1 1/2 weeks. For those who have been keeping up with my posts, at LLU they put us in the hospital for the 2 weeks before we you even start your first year […]

So I have finally gotten some sleep and now I can write a little about what my first finals week of medical school was like. Well first, I would like to restate that it was NOT a finals weeK; it was actually 2 1/2 weeks of finals. And to be honest, it was more like […]

I took my last test today and I’m pretty sure that I passed….so I’m officially a second year medical student!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In my next post, I’ll post a write up on how my finals weekS went.

Friday, Today, this glorious day, marked by last day of lecture as a first year medical student!!! I honestly can’t believe how fast it all went. I truly remember the apprehension I had before my first exam. I remember looking at all my classmates and wondering whether I would even be smart enough to pass […]

So spring break is over and I’ve been forced to start medical school again. Its actually kind of bitter sweet because I only have 5 more weeks of actually classes left, but then again…I have class, so which is better :)? The break definitely rejuvenated me and helped me get back into the routine of […]

Its the Sabbath today and I am very much enjoying my rest after a grueling week of tests. The picture below contains the schedule of what they put us through: Test week to me is always a huge juggling act. You really want to study hard and do well on every test, but at least […]

Yes yes yes, my last test week before finals is next week. After the test week next week, the next time I’ll have tests will be finals. I honestly can’t believe this year has gone so quickly. The pictures below pretty much sum up what this test week looks like for me: And yes, that […]

I must say that I’m quite honored that people are still visiting my blog, even though I haven’t written a new post in ages. My posting frequency really depends on the kind of semester I’m having in medical school. I haven’t posted much lately because I’m am SO BEHIND I CAN’T EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE […]

“What am I willing to sacrifice to get this?” This is a question that I’m sure every medical student has asked them self during their matriculation. As you know, people have sacrificed their life for what they thought was important, and medicine is no different. I can see it happening even now; many medical students […]

What happened to the surgeon title in my blog name? Well I’ve been pondering it a lot, and this is all related to a different mindset that I’m taking as I matriculate through medical school. Lately I’ve been asking myself: “What if God doesn’t want me to be a surgeon?” Personally, I still really like […]

We got all of our grades back, and besides anatomy, I scored better on the other test than I’ve ever scored! So yeah, you have to roll with the punches in medical school, because it can definitely be a roller coaster of emotions and experiences.

Today marked the end of the hardest test week that I’ve had while I’ve been in medical school. I don’t know how the school did it (seeing as how this quarter was shorter due to the Thanksgiving break), but they managed to pack more information into this quarter than we’ve had before. When I say […]

“Like drinking from a firehose”….that statement is definitely an understatement of what medical school feels like right now. A firehose is doable; what I’m drinking right now doesn’t quite have an adjective yet. Tests are in one week and I feel like I’m sinking…dying from behind…not ready…

So my second test week is over and how did I do……not too bad. I must admit though that this test week seriously tested my faith in God. The week didn’t start out well at all. First we had anatomy/embryology, which I had really really studied, but the embryology questions that the teacher decided to […]

Sorry for my long hiatus, but I’ll try to catch you up. On Call with OB-GYN From my title, you can see that I’ve partially lost my love for the field of OB-GYN. I really did take the initiative; I signed up for the OB-GYN interest group at my school. At one of the meetings, […]

I’m not sure if I mentioned this already, but I was really getting depressed about studying constantly but not doing anything “good” for anyone else. I was praying for the Lord to give me an outlet like what I had at Oakwood, and he answered my prayer almost immediately. Surrounding the Loma Linda area is […]

Ok, maybe its a Californian thing, and I just find it weird because I’m from Maryland. But I was walking around a mall in the Riverside, CA area and I see countless teenage boys dressed like this: What is going on with our society when the boys feel like they need to wear stretch pants? […]

It’s OOOOOVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you don’t believe in God before you start medical school, you quickly become a believer (of something higher than yourself) when you study and take these tests. We were given these lectures notes 4 weeks ago: And believe it or not, we have covered all of the information! When you start medical […]

For those of you that are still in college….do you remember when finals week would come up and you would really start studying..probably about 5 good hours a day for the hard classes like Biochem? Well that is what medical school is like, except you are studying like that everyday, and sometimes you wish you […]

So a took one of those medical aptitude tests at http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/ and this are the top 10 specialties that matched my personality: 1 general surgery 2 obstetrics/gynecology 3 gastroenterology 4 colon & rectal surgery 5 nuclear med 6 pathology 7 otolaryngology 8 orthopaedic surgery 9 thoracic surgery 10 occupational med If I can actually pass […]

    If I was in college, I wouldn’t even know there was a test coming up until like 3 days before the test. Its not that my college teachers didn’t annouce the test, but I just didn’t take note of it until about 3 days before. Well, I’m in medical school now and I’ve been […]

So I start school tomorrow and it is truly an exciting/scary prospect. Its wierd, because I’ve worked and prayed for this for so long, and now its here. My time on the wards was a good experience, and if anything, it allowed me to bond with my fellow classmates. I got to present a patient […]

So as you know during the first 2 weeks of school at LLU, the medical students are in the hospital. They split us up randomly in terms of what service each student would be in, and I was put in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). So how has my week been? I guess I […]

So I had my white coat ceremony yesterday. You can check out a little summary video below:   I truly feel like a medical student now. The event was truly wonderful and exciting. Everyone was taking pictures and I truly felt like I had “made it”. ______________________ So yeah, it was truly wonderful getting our […]

Today is my first day of medical school orientation! I’ll tell you all about it tonight! ——————————————————————————————– So today was my first day of orientation and the best way I can describe it is INFORMATION OVERLOAD. Not in a scary way, but just every god given department that Loma Linda had, had a part in […]

The Lord has truly truly blessed me these past couple of weeks. I know I’ve been gone for awhile, but I’ll try to give a thorough update on everything that has happened. I would say that the single biggest and most important thing that could have happened to me, occurred on July 8, 2007….I married […]

So yeah, I’m getting married on Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m really more than excited and I’m so ready to just get this weekend over with so I can officially be a husband :). One of my groomsmen and I went to AfterHours FormalWear to pick up our tuxes, but we were standing in line for like 1 […]

I found this article during a recent Google search, and it can be found here: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1276505 Its about surgical medical missionary work. Check it out!!!