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The thing that remains..

"Now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love" I Corinthians 13:13 In life, there are three essentials. As essential as water, food and shelter, there are these three essentials: Faith. Hope. Love. I suspect there will come a day when we will look at our faith, our faith in men, in religion and find it inadequate. Find incongruity in the faith of men, incongruity in what preachers preach and what they actually practice.  Even find ourselves disappointed at our own inability to have faith, to believe in the supernatural or perceive the power of God in the midst of mounting failures, tragedies... I suspect there will come days when hope is hard to reach. Days when our hope is crushed by the weight of our realities.  Weight of all the dreams that lay beyond our grasp. There will nights, where in the darkness we will find ourselves hopeless. But according to 1 Corinthians 13:13, one thing wi...

Why Medicine?

(Disclaimer: This is gonna be a sappy post. Tomorrow I'll have something emo or angry to impart. But today, cheesy it will be!)  Today a patient came into the ED (emergency department) for suicidal ideation. And after the ER doc, I was the next in line as a medical student on psychiatry call to see her. As slow as I am, I spent some time piecing together her life, listening to her story as she spilled the contents of her broken heart to a complete stranger.  After the story was compiled and then reported to my 'boss', we went into the room to meet the women with the broken heart.  He asked her questions. Questions that I forgot to ask, pieces that I missed. Somewhere between the beginning and the end, he asked if she was continuing to have suicidal thoughts. And she replied no. With a slight smile now she said talking it out with me made her feel better... Its funny really... This experience has made me realize that my love for medicine has nothing to do with medicine....
Long walks in the dark through woods grown behind the park I asked God who I'm supposed to be The stars smiled down on me God answered in silent reverie I said a prayer and fell asleep -- Dream, Priscilla Ahn