what day is it again???

Hey friends sorry it has taken me so long to update, but I have my first block exam this coming Friday and have been spending this past week and this weekend starting to prepare. is it just me or am I taking my first exam the week everybody else goes back to school?...anyways. As I continue to study I am learning and absorbing new material everyday. I feel like a sponge and if you were to excise my skull and look at the space where my cranium should be it would probably look like one too. however, my joy is being made complete the more and more time I spend here. This experience is not only teaching me alot about how to examine others, but also examine myself. I am excited because this week we will be working on taking vitals and blood pressure and other generic procedures when it comes to a clinical setting. As I learn more on how to be a doctor I realize that there has to be an immense amount of compassion for others regardless of who they. Also, I am slowly realizing, very slowly that it is possible to have a life outside of school and to do so is actually probably more helpful than spending all day in the books. Because who wants to talk to a doctor in the exam room who has his head in a book all day. While i barely have time to look up and look ahead I do see that I am still far away from my goal of becoming D.O., but at the same time it humbles me to work harder and pace myself for the endevours to come. So, before I get back to melting my brain with mechanism of 5' capping, glenohumral adduction, and clincal cases involving impingment of the ulnar nerve think on this from an all time great movie..."if you focus on the problem you can never see the solution...never focus on the problem." Always work to increase the quality of each others lives. We are all doctors in some small way. My love to all friends. Talk to you soon!

Be the tortoise

greetings to all!



well I have successfully completed orientation and the first few days of medical school. I had a professor tell me to be a tortoise in the state of taking things a year at a time and as they come along. Interesting considering I spent the next two days learning how to speed read like a jack rabbit. Things here are awesome and I love my professors...so far. The amount of material is beginning to increase, as seen by the fact I had four powerpoint lectures in the span of two hours this morning and a lecture on professionalism in the classroom and clinical setting. I look forward to tomorrow as we will be starting essentials of patient care and osteopathic principles and practices...pretty much how to be a doctor with examinations and script writing, while also learning cool techniques to help treat patients. The main thing that I keep realizing is how humbling all this is because while i have accomplished so much there is so much more to go. However, I am willing to sacrifice what is needed to achieve this goal of mine and ultimately serve god in the endevours to come. My love to all friends and confusion to all enemies. I hope that is well wherever you are.