Ideal med school day
Before med school, I had a preconception of what a typical day in med school would be like. It would include some lecturing, walking through the hospital in my white coat, and some studying. Unfortunately, these days are very few in reality. Typically it is several hours of lecturing followed by several hours of studying followed by several more hours of studying. However, yesterday was one of those, “fantasy days”.
Yesterday, I sat in biochem for 1 hr learning about DNA. That was followed with a lecture from a radiologist reviewing the pelvis and lower limb. Then, it was up to the anatomy lab where we bisected the pelvis and removed the right leg of our cadavers so that we could see, in cross section, what we are currently learning about. And that was all in the morning.
Lunch was provided by an interest group with a guest speaker who spoke about his ideas for healthcare reform. Very interesting and very entertaining. As soon as that was finished, I grabbed my white coat from the wall and headed to the cancer center in the hospital. After I had asked for the Dr. that I was shadowing, they told me she had just gone to the other end of the hospital to do the procedure I was supposed to observe. “If you walk fast, you may catch her.” So off I went walking at Dr. speed through the hospital *highlight of my day. Then, I asked the nurses on the floor where this Dr. was and they said room 8. I knocked, entered, and introduced myself to the Dr. I was shadowing. She told me to throw on the gloves so I could not only observe the bone marrow biopsy, but help. White coat came off and sterile gloves went on. She was telling me that they take bone from the superior posterior iliac crest. Crazy thing; i knew what she was talking about b/c we were just looking at that structure that morning in anatomy!
After the procedure, I walked back and finished out my day in typical med student fashion… a few hours of studying followed by a few more hours of studying.
Jesus, thank You so much for the calling to medicine on my life. Thank you Lord that when you call us to a mission field, you place a brokenness for the people there and a delight for the Hope that you are to them. Thank you Jesus for placing an odd delight in my heart for biochemistry and medical procedures to help me better worship You and display You in medicine. God, save my medical community.
