Juggling in the Tulips

Two months have passed, the snows have melted and flowers are blooming. Spring is here, the time of year when a young man's fancy turns to........antiarrhythmic cardiopharmacology and the corticospinal tract. There is no direct connection between the two, but these are what we are currently studying.

The past 60 days have been rough on me. Personal tragedies combined with intensified studies have pushed me onto the wrong side of the academic bell curve. I am hoping to pass the semester, said semester being a mere four weeks away.

This brings up another painful point about medical school - despite the focus on becoming a doctor, life doesn't stop. People still get sick and sometimes die. Medical school does not pause for these tragedies. Like an obsessed but talented juggler, the medical student must keep in the air both the demands of school as well as the reality of everyday living knowing that, after four incredibly busy and short years, the payoff will come. It will be worth it. This fact combined with my faith and my extraordinarily supportive wife and children, are keeping me in the game.  I'm not giving up. With the help of God, I will do this.

Back to the books.

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