a lot of people say a lot of important, inspiring, and interesting things, but its the things you tell yourself that mean the most. let those things be important, inspiring, and interesting. believe in yourself.
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GET INVOLVED. STOP AT NOTHING. THE WORLD MUST KNOW.
I dare you to stop scrolling through your dashboard. Stop checking your Facebook newsfeed that you’ve already checked two seconds ago. Stop updating your Twitter and seeing what your favorite celebrities are saying. Stop watching funny and nonsense videos on Youtube. Take time to educate yourself to MAKE A DIFFERENCE in this world. This is your chance! WATCH THIS VIDEO.
Let’s make JOSEPH KONY Famous!!
Who is JOSEPH KONY?
He is THE WORST LIVING CRIMINAL. He abducts children and makes them use guns to kill their own parents. He takes girls and forces them to be sex slaves. He calls his abducted children the Lord’s Resistance Army, AKA the LRA. He has abducted over 30,000 children and forced them to be child soldiers in Central Africa. He remains at large because he is INVISIBLE to the world. FEW know his name, even FEWER know his crimes. WE ARE MAKING HIM FAMOUS! Because when he is, the world will unite against him and demand his arrest.
We can help make a change. We can make a difference.
I feel so inspired. I feel the need to help and make a difference. This has to happen in 2012. We can’t let him go around and keep doing this to children in Central Africa. Let’s make his name known so he can be stopped. HE CAN NO LONGER BE INVISIBLE!
REBLOG IF YOU CARE.
This will not make your blog ugly, please take a moment to reblog and get the word out. SHARE THIS TO EVERYONE! Be a part of something BIG and when they catch this man, you would be able to say.. “I HELPED.”
LET’S START HERE ON TUMBLR.
Couldn’t not reblog this. Shit, get me one of those action kits.
Reblog, and get involved.
please watch.
Usually don’t bother with this stuff but I remember helping out with Invisible Children at school and felt it was well worth the watch.
if you know me, you know how much i love the amazing spider-man! #excite
- The new #SpiderMan trailer I’m loving this
medicine
i wanted to post this yesterday right after class, but (insert excuse), so its happening now. being back in manila to continue working towards my dreams has been great. God has sent me signs aka reminders along this road He has paved for me telling me to keep going and its been amazing.
so yesterday i had my medicine preceptorial, which is basically where we learn our clinical skills. i admit that i’m pretty useless to the rest of my group because of my lack of confidence in my tagalog skills (or lack thereof). after discussing our patient, the preceptor, who btw, is so amazing and good at what she does. she’s quite friendly, approachable, yet she holds herself as a strong, intelligent woman who commands and demands respect. she’d be an awesome mentor. anyways, she takes us to see another patient to observe her interviewing techniques. she explains her though processes and why she asks certain things.
then she lets us all listen to his heart. so we all listen to his heart and he has a murmur. actually he has two murmurs. so, after we’re done, we discuss differential diagnoses and we find out that he was recently diagnosed with Marfan’s (big head, big hands, long extremities, tall, lanky, speech impediment, slow cognitive function). we learned about this disease earlier this year, but to see it live is something completely different. real life definitely sticks in your mind than anything you can read out of your book or see in a youtube video. what hit us all hard was when we found out that this patient actually has a 9cm ascending aortic aneurysm, which means that he could die at any time.
excuse the pun *our hearts all dropped collectively* the room was silent. doc explained to us the realities of being a doctor. dropped knowledge then dropped bombs. she explained that we must always first and foremost comfort our patients while we try to cure them.
it was a reality check. a caution sign. and a reminder to us all to find the balance between empathy and indifference.
the saddest part is that this patient is poor and cannot receive the actual care he needs because of it. the surgery required to save his life will cost him 800k pesos which amounts to over $18k. he came to UERM charity wards.
its inspiring and exciting to see where i’ll be and what i’ll be capable of in my mentors, but its also inspiring to see that medicine is more than curing a scientific ailment. i hope one day that i’ll surprise myself and do more than i ever set out to do. i wanna live and do the ideal.
