| This is one of my favorite verses!Proverbs 3:27 (New International Version)Do not withhold good from those who deserve it,
when it is in your power to act. Little by little, I start to realize what I can and can't do. He has always been there for us. He is in control. Don't worry. Breathe, breathe...His words are always timely encouragement. (Haven't been on xanga for so long!) |
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| Recently, I got a chance to see patients in actual hospital setting, in an oncology outpatient service and also the ER, emergency room (Things are very different than in a television series - most people don't wear makeups and there's no hollywood stars). Moving fast in ER, observing how "bad news" is delivered with a meticulous plan, and finally reminding myself that I should work harder to understand the human's diseases, and also the sick person himself. "Hi, I am Terence, a medical student. I've got a few questions to ask you about your visit, may I sit down?" It's only in a few years, that I will be expected to say, "Hi, I am Dr. Sio, I will take good care of you." What would happen between these two points? A 3-step licensing exam, many night calls, and medical textbooks, watching Hong gradate from Harvey Mudd, and if God guides us, hopefully a marriage too. Sometimes, I am at loss of words when patients told me absolutely sad things, or when I see the weaken body of an 82-years-old gentleman inflicted by metastatic melanoma. A suicidal girl in the ward, who carried a medical history of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) because she was raped by her own dad. A 33-yr old lady who's a ten-yr survivor of rectal cancer. An Africian American with diarrhea 10-15 times per day for 2 weeks and I worked out a solution of antibiotics side-effect and ran down the list of organisms with the fellow doctor. A first digital exam. Physical examination of a female chest that carried the merciless marks of breast cancers. At the Mortality and Morbidity conference, a 36-yo Chinese man who died of lung cancer and on the powerpoint slides, the cancer cells staring right back at me, into the deepest fear of my heart, laughing at my inferiority in fertile efforts of even imagining to assist anything. Above all, for every patient, in their own story, our Lord is in control. He comforts, and He's waiting and weeping for us to go back into His arms. |
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"Been driving around for 40 years..." Sign found in Taiwan If anyone is a 24 fan... "杰克在第一季杀了10人，第二季30人，第三季14人，第四季44人，第五季38人。总共杀了136人。" |
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| Happy new year! This year, what do I want to get done in His light and watching? What did I do last year that showed His mercy and blessing for me? (Weather is still very cold!)
Thanks to Danielle for hosting me this weekend, it's very nice to catch up with her and hopefully our schedules are permissible for more visits in this semester - traveling to NYC is surely more troublesome than going up to Boston, but we do believe that it's God's will to place Danielle at Columbia for a try to BrownMED's linkage program. |
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| Pray for strength (to combat laziness, inactivism, and apathy)! Advocate for MY LORD. Not a neurologist, not a neurologist... |
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