Happy New Year!

2007....

Wow....I think I am finally starting to see some light at the end of this tunnel called "MEDICINE" - I graduate next year!!! Now that's still a long way to go, and I still have many more rotations to go to, BUT I've survived 1/2 of 3rd year thus far and I have 1.5 years to go! Finally, I'll hopefully be done!
Being on the wards has been a nice change from the classroom/lecture-style teaching sessions I've been accustomed to. However, it's been challenging in a different sense to come back from a 10 hour day at the hospital, spend time with the wife, and do all the readings for the next day. It's made me realize that Med School is a "selfish" in many ways because it demands so much energy, so much time that it's easy to suck the life out of you. I have to learn to be "selfish", yet at the same time balance it with commitments of family, church and friends. This has been the toughest part of med school for me - the constant juggling of competing demands, in the context of learning to care for patients. I constantly wonder how I'm doing...