One Year Ago

It was exactly one year ago today that determined my life at least for the next 3 years. That calls for a celebration!

Faded

Seeing her again after 9 months, I felt the power of time - affection does fade with time when it's not deep and when you don't keep up with it. I can't imagine myself falling for her again, nor can I now reason to myself why I had fallen for her in the first place. I feel good about her avoidance that day - it reassured me that I am not the one who's in the wrongs.

Home Sweet Home

This week is my last vacation break of my internship year and I've decided to return to and spend some quality time with my folks and my sister. I must say - it's good to be home. Not much has changed since I was last here 9 months ago, and even though there are certain aspects of Socal that appeal to me, I'd still pick SF over LA in a heartbeat.

Busy Day in the RH Clinic

This week I have been working in a county reproductive health clinic in the area (perhaps an euphemism for STD clinic). For me who, like most of the male doctors nowadays, is somewhat deficient in getting trained for gyn exams, it is a pretty wonderful experience. If I haven't learned anything else, I have learned to do pelvic and breast exams efficiently and picked up some techniques to help ease patients' stress.

An interesting observation is that some of the patients have no questions with a male doing their exams, whereas the rest have different degrees of reluntance. A couple of them even freaked out when they saw a guy walking into the room. And while I always keep everything professional, I think it is absolutely against nature when you walk into a room, see this gorgeous 19-year-old blonde, and not have other thoughts. It's kind of a guilty pleasure. It's times like this when I really start to wonder - how much do these patients trust you for them to let you touch their most sacred parts of their body?

A Little Girl Has Made My Day

Today is the last day of my inpatient service rotation. I had a fun time indeed - I've been blessed with a cool, fun team with a GREAT attending that has now become my role model.

As I was taking the escalator down after a long day to get my car, an Asian mother pointed me to her little girl.

Mother: "Ask him if he is a doctor..."
Toddler: "Are you a doctor?"
Me: "Yes, I am." (with a great smile of course)
Me: "Do you want to be a doctor?"
Toddler: "Yes~"
Me: "Good girl!"

It totally made my day.