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I am reading several excellent books on Poverty as part of my employment journey (This is something I have wanted to do for a while!).  Part of the one book involves a lot of reflection and some of it I am going to post.

The book argues that good intentions are not enough ( Read more... )

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Publishing old saved drafts….

from July…although hauntingly still true.

Long ago and far away I spent my summers wandering the streets of Bucharest playing with street kids, finding babies in back rooms of crumbling, stifling Soviet bloc hospitals. These summers defined me ( Read more... )

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Three years ago when I was in the mist of my third year of medical school. I went through a 2 month period where I rarely slept more than a few hours at a time. It wasn’t the call schedule, it wasn’t the stress of residency applications or Step 2, it wasnt even entirely the ( Read more... )

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In a room full of young, enthusiastic, Christian physicians who come from all over the US (and the world!) to study here, a question is asked by the one gray aged seasoned doctor in the room: Have you ever known a patient who was healed but still sick, still dying?
Everyone ( Read more... )

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7 years is a long time.

I am sitting curled up in one of my favorite places in the world. The ZSR library on the Wake Forest ugrad campus. Its nooks and crannies and huge windows and high callings have facilitated my studies, my imagination and my dreams for the past 7 years ( Read more... )

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I love this country and only God knows why.

I walked into the pediatric oncology ward today and the first patient I met had a brain abscess of unknown pathogen origin but since she has cancer it could be a very, very bad bug. She was in a room with two other leukemia ( Read more... )

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 It is a lovely Tuesday night in Bucharest. Emily and I have settled in well. We got our clearance for the baby hospital today, we start on Thursday. Emily has been busy with school, I have been busy with clinic. I already know at least one reason why God has brought me ( Read more... )

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There was an article about Belarus in The Wall Street Journal this weekend!!! I am pleased to hear that people care. Because it really does matter and its not just the principal of thing.  The article talks about how what happens with Russia’s future is an inside and ( Read more... )

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When my sister and I were in Romania two years ago we had a running joke about how much I (we) LOVE TRAFFIC!!!  Bucharest is filled with traffic. In the communist era there were quotas on cars and folks would sign up years in advance before being allowed a car. Now in the ( Read more... )

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I just finished putting together my Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) (standarized patient exam) Packet. I have to have permission from the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) to take my wheelchair and hearing aides with me into the exam.

Over break I went through my ( Read more... )