The Beginning

One of the greatest mysteries of our universe is the fundamental properties of life- in particular, the first principles from which life is spawned. In most major hospitals, the utmost concern is with human life, and in most bioethical circles, human life is considered sacred both religiously and non-religiously, i.e. even many atheists believe that life is something special.

Working in the clinical environment brings us that much closer to eternal salvation understanding the fundamental clockwork of the human timepiece. Every operation we see, every diagnosis we hear, every whimper of hope we feel from a surgery that is to improve and enhance the life of a fellow human being- all of these give us a greater sense of self, of who we really are on the inside, of who we should or could be on the outside.

As we all may already know, compassion is an intrinsic part of humanity. Every day, we empathize for the sufferings of life; we all suffer and we all live. In the hospital, we are often times pushed to the limits of what we can even fathom to empathize, for the experience is so far beyond our encounters in the everyday that our senses are inundated with confounded solicitude. All we can really feel and share is simply the experience of life as human beings, but perhaps that is enough.

This first week of clinical immersion has been eventful, as it has catalyzed our gait into the gates of a sacred human establishment. We will learn, and we will prosper.