Hello Again

Obviously this blog is not one of my top priorities.

This quarter has been pretty brutal. We had a slew of tests in February- pretty much two every week. At the beginning of the marathon I came down with the flu/cold that's going around. Missing two and a half days of school at this level is much harder.

We had two shorter courses this term, Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine and Doctor-Patient Communication, that focused more on the personal side of medicine. I really enjoyed both and its easy to forget about this side of medicine when we're so focused on the basic sciences right now. Each class really emphasized how important the interactions between practitioner and patient really are - it doesn't matter how competent you are if you cannot connect with and meet your patients wherever they are in the healing process.
I must admit I was pretty wary of a class called Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine. I did not enjoy all of the posted reading material but there were a few chapters from various books (Oschman is the only name I remember right now) that really challenged my idea of energy medicine as a completely woo-woo subject. There's a lot of physics in this field and that is what has really influenced my opinion. If anyone's interested in more, send me an email. I can't say I'm competent enough to have a discussion but I can forward articles. There's some really good research and science behind this modality, conversely there's also a lot of really bad "energy" medicine as well.

I'm procrastinating right now. Unfortunately I spent yesterday avoiding school work so today I'm paying. I should have worked yesterday though- its sunny and beautiful.
Back to the books...