clerkship
I knew this day would come but i never realized it would feel this way, it’s unexplainable, to think that we are still a few hours away before the BURNING!
Clerkship was one experience nobody will understand unless s/he went through the same process.
Clerkship was a learning experience not even tons of book can make anyone learn.
Clerkship was a very tiring and exhausting experience - mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and socially but have made a better person and doctor out of me and out of each and every CC I personally know.
Clerkship was a very humbling experience, I used to ask myself why do I have do all these scut works and menial tasks, but through time I realized it’s the least you can do for an ailing patient, especially to charity patients who don’t have enough to keep them alive.
Clerkship was one rollercoaster ride, will I dare go through it all again? The truth is NO I WONT, because though it was fun to reminisce about what have had transpired for a year I think I’ve already learned what I needed to learn, I’ve already acquired the skills that I needed to acquire, now it’s time to move on to a new chapter.
Thank you to all our mentors, Consultants who never get tired of shedding light into our minds, Our RESIDENTS who are our direct bosses who taught us in different ways they knew how, =P, who made us feel we are part of the team and that we are doctors, our very lovable PGIs, who weren’t only our ma’ams and sirs but who mostly became our friends as well and who helped us especially in times when we weren’t so sure about what we were doing. Thank you as well to all the staff, our helpful and friendly nurses, nurse aides especially those who made our lives a lot easier. To the manong and manang global who made sure our lunggas were clean. To the one who does the paging who gives us a few laughs at times when we were too serious and tired, =P.
I am proud to be part of batch 2012, but most of all I am proud to be part of my group, MA-ONG, you were my immediate family the entire year, we started not really knowing each other that much, we probably have had our minute differences once in a while, it haven’t been a smooth sailing ride all the time but we have learned how to deal with each other, with stress, with work. We had each other in times of disappointments, frustrations, and heartaches. We had each other in times of fun, victories, and triumphs. We probably were the group that was least interesting, you know, nothing special, who laugh at their own jokes but at the same time we were the group who will always end up happy and crazy and SEXY(haha). We never really knew how to dance, we were even underdogs but we worked as a group and just enjoyed every moment of it that’s why when triumph was handed to us we were among the happiest. 1 month of living together in a far away land even made us even more bonded, who would ever forget our grocery days, who would ever forget the meals we ate, the stories we shared, the insane things we did, and the stupid things we laugh at? They said you will really know your groupmates once clerkship started, I sure know all of my groupmates now, and Im just happy to have been part of this group. Clerkship is over but the friendship we were able to build is far from over.
…few hours before the BURNING - there is no better way to explain what i am feeling right now but the oxymoron term, BITTERSWEET…
Clinical Clerk Marapao about to sign off
Jessa Marisse E. Marapao, MD about to sign in, =)
