November 2, 2009.
By Grace of The Almighty Lord, the day was productive, mind was on track, and body was able.
Today was a productive day, started early as we changed clinical instructions to Dr. Natalia, who is now teaching us Abdominal-Gastric Systems. The level of maturity she expects of us is quite intense, and quite humbling, as we are being instructed by a highly educated veteran OB-GYN who holds two Ph.Ds and one M.D. Today we did lower abdominal inspection, the different signs; palpations, percussion methodology, patient history taking, as well as medical etiquette. I exceedingly enjoyed her class and being able to interact with a live patient. A reprieve from the long medical lectures in power point or from the staged patients (usually played by one of my medical batchmates).
Our Medical Clinical Class started at 8.AM sharp, and ended at 10 AM sharp. I had a 10 minute break for coffee before beginning Systemic Pathology lecture, which was from 10:10am till 12 noon. Work mode.
Today, I had the chance to sit down and work non-stop and just read. Haven't had this quiet time in a while, just being able to read for 5 hours straight without any interruption.
Am at home right now, just enjoyed a nice home-made pinakbet w/ beans and finished it with pears.
Back to work. So far, that is what I did. I shall be up late tonight till 2-3 AM to do some more work.
Thus is a life of a 2nd year Medical Student.
To God be the Glory!
Yours,
A. Lorenzo Lucino Jr.
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