Comments on: ENDSTAGE COREAN http://www.medeasmemoirs.com/2008/06/07/endstage-corean/ half-Corean dad, doc, artist who is not afraid of going to Hell Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:32:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: blbrrytart http://www.medeasmemoirs.com/2008/06/07/endstage-corean/comment-page-1/#comment-1492 blbrrytart Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:35:19 +0000 http://www.medeasmemoirs.com/2008/06/07/endstage-corean/#comment-1492 right. right.

]]> By: scott http://www.medeasmemoirs.com/2008/06/07/endstage-corean/comment-page-1/#comment-559 scott Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:44:03 +0000 http://www.medeasmemoirs.com/2008/06/07/endstage-corean/#comment-559 Amanda, treat yourself to some bulgogi and rice, girl. You're a doctor now! Vonnie, thanks for the insight. Amanda, treat yourself to some bulgogi and rice, girl. You’re a doctor now!

Vonnie, thanks for the insight.

]]> By: Vonnie http://www.medeasmemoirs.com/2008/06/07/endstage-corean/comment-page-1/#comment-550 Vonnie Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:32:44 +0000 http://www.medeasmemoirs.com/2008/06/07/endstage-corean/#comment-550 I was a home health hospice nurse for 18 months. It took everything I had, and it was the absolute best experience of my life, teaching me more about life and healing emotional issues, than the physical aspects of death, dying and disease processes. Listening to the spoken and unspoken fears, grief and anger took the most out of me. After 18 months I went back to regular ol' home care, where I get to discharge patients because they have obtained the goals we set. And yet I miss hospice with every breath I take and wish I had a little more of me to give. I was a home health hospice nurse for 18 months. It took everything I had, and it was the absolute best experience of my life, teaching me more about life and healing emotional issues, than the physical aspects of death, dying and disease processes. Listening to the spoken and unspoken fears, grief and anger took the most out of me. After 18 months I went back to regular ol’ home care, where I get to discharge patients because they have obtained the goals we set. And yet I miss hospice with every breath I take and wish I had a little more of me to give.

]]> By: misterbeans http://www.medeasmemoirs.com/2008/06/07/endstage-corean/comment-page-1/#comment-535 misterbeans Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:11:43 +0000 http://www.medeasmemoirs.com/2008/06/07/endstage-corean/#comment-535 I used to LOVE bulgogi as a child! I'm veggie now, so it's been years. And no, I'm not K(C)orean, but my stepmother is half-Korean and grew up eating and cooking some Korean dishes. She and my dad have been married close to 20 years now, so many of my formative years were spent with her, and in many ways I'm closer to her than to my own mother. I haven't thought about bulgogi in a loooong time. I used to LOVE bulgogi as a child! I’m veggie now, so it’s been years. And no, I’m not K(C)orean, but my stepmother is half-Korean and grew up eating and cooking some Korean dishes. She and my dad have been married close to 20 years now, so many of my formative years were spent with her, and in many ways I’m closer to her than to my own mother. I haven’t thought about bulgogi in a loooong time.

]]> By: scott http://www.medeasmemoirs.com/2008/06/07/endstage-corean/comment-page-1/#comment-507 scott Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:36:30 +0000 http://www.medeasmemoirs.com/2008/06/07/endstage-corean/#comment-507 Rachel, I do not envy the counselors/social workers. And thank you. Eric, getting into the hospital is the easy part. :-) Gary, I assumed the interviewers ask about physician parents to have something to talk about or learn more about you. I didn't have any physicians in my family. I honestly did not really know what a doctor really does other than TV shows. I suspect most people in every medical school class don't really know either. Volunteers at the hospital are usually assigned as gophers or greeters - no exposure to doctoring there. People think all doctors either: Do operations (surgeons), see you in their office (primary/family doctors), or work in the ER. Even today, most people do not know what 'internal medicine' is (which is pretty much the core of all medicine divisions) or what a hospitalist (me) is. House is closest to what a Hospitalist does - but still not realistic. Grey's is mostly just profoundly retarded. Thanks for the kind words, Gary. Rachel, I do not envy the counselors/social workers. And thank you.

Eric, getting into the hospital is the easy part. :-)

Gary, I assumed the interviewers ask about physician parents to have something to talk about or learn more about you. I didn’t have any physicians in my family. I honestly did not really know what a doctor really does other than TV shows. I suspect most people in every medical school class don’t really know either. Volunteers at the hospital are usually assigned as gophers or greeters – no exposure to doctoring there. People think all doctors either: Do operations (surgeons), see you in their office (primary/family doctors), or work in the ER. Even today, most people do not know what ‘internal medicine’ is (which is pretty much the core of all medicine divisions) or what a hospitalist (me) is. House is closest to what a Hospitalist does – but still not realistic. Grey’s is mostly just profoundly retarded. Thanks for the kind words, Gary.

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