It's wierd. Usually the full moon starts to not get full a night or two after the appearance of a full moon. I remember seeing the moon get unfull a couple days ago, but then it became full again, and now it's full still. So confusing. Maybe it's the extra cold weather that's causing some disturbance of our perception of what's in the sky.
Today was our last DPAS session for the 1st term. For the past couple weeks we have been focusing on different topics regarding ethics and law and how it pertains to our future medical practice. It's been a couple of interesting weeks and definitely got me thinking about how I could run into a lot of moral and ethical cross-roads as I move along in my career. Before I was made aware of these issues, I would have simply been making decisions based on my own values and beliefs. And a lot of times (I found), I would have greatly increased the chance of myself being sued for malpractice. Now that I've attended these lectures/discussions, I have been equipped with a framework to systematically tackle these problems. More importantly, just raising my awareness on these issues will help me to step back whenever I'm confronted with an issue that troubles me, and think twice before I ever do something that could potentially harm my patient or myself. As I am quite the novice in discussing touchy issues that require a lot of deep thinking, I am very fortunate to have a very bright group of colleagues in my small tutorial group to inspire new ways of thinking and help me to see things in a different light and from other angles. I definitely see room for improvement personally in terms of thinking on my feet and articulating sound reasoning and thoughts. That would be probably one of my greatest weaknesses. I am also really grateful to have had a great DPAS partner for the two ethics presentations we had to do. Not only is my partner really bright, she does a wonderful job at debating and getting her point across in discussions. I truly admire her ability to think critically on the spot and always stay active in discussions. It was a pleasure working with her and I definitely could learn a lot from her.
I have to admit that when I first started in University in my undergrad, I was a really competitive individual and I was quite envious of others I encountered who I felt were more intelligent than I was in a lot of respects. Now that I've matured, I see that I am so fortunate to be surrounded by such bright and forward-thinking individuals. In business, there's always the saying, "it's not what you know, it's who you know." And that can't be anymore true here. I'm learning things from my colleagues just by being around them everyday. I have a whole life of learning ahead of me and I need to remind myself that there's no rush to the finish-line.
Today was our last DPAS session for the 1st term. For the past couple weeks we have been focusing on different topics regarding ethics and law and how it pertains to our future medical practice. It's been a couple of interesting weeks and definitely got me thinking about how I could run into a lot of moral and ethical cross-roads as I move along in my career. Before I was made aware of these issues, I would have simply been making decisions based on my own values and beliefs. And a lot of times (I found), I would have greatly increased the chance of myself being sued for malpractice. Now that I've attended these lectures/discussions, I have been equipped with a framework to systematically tackle these problems. More importantly, just raising my awareness on these issues will help me to step back whenever I'm confronted with an issue that troubles me, and think twice before I ever do something that could potentially harm my patient or myself. As I am quite the novice in discussing touchy issues that require a lot of deep thinking, I am very fortunate to have a very bright group of colleagues in my small tutorial group to inspire new ways of thinking and help me to see things in a different light and from other angles. I definitely see room for improvement personally in terms of thinking on my feet and articulating sound reasoning and thoughts. That would be probably one of my greatest weaknesses. I am also really grateful to have had a great DPAS partner for the two ethics presentations we had to do. Not only is my partner really bright, she does a wonderful job at debating and getting her point across in discussions. I truly admire her ability to think critically on the spot and always stay active in discussions. It was a pleasure working with her and I definitely could learn a lot from her.
I have to admit that when I first started in University in my undergrad, I was a really competitive individual and I was quite envious of others I encountered who I felt were more intelligent than I was in a lot of respects. Now that I've matured, I see that I am so fortunate to be surrounded by such bright and forward-thinking individuals. In business, there's always the saying, "it's not what you know, it's who you know." And that can't be anymore true here. I'm learning things from my colleagues just by being around them everyday. I have a whole life of learning ahead of me and I need to remind myself that there's no rush to the finish-line.
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