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Medical school encouraging stories
Hey guys, I have been thinking of starting a forum were people can discuss their academic stories mostly their stories of entering med school, and their experiences. I'm a second year college student, and I feel it's important to hear from others and learn from their experiences.
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when my friends say they are studying medicine, i feel sorry for them because they will have a hard life!
also, i presume u r not actually abouna because u r a college student.
or maybe it's a new requirement now for priests to go back to college if they didn't do it before!
;)
You can also assume that he is not "fatherbishoykamel" because Fr. Bishoy dies about 20 some years ago LOL.
Ray
may God repose his soul and may he pray for us.
did u go to college, return orthodoxy?
also what college are u at 'fatherbishoykamel'?
sorry, don't know the american priests!
may God repose his soul and may he pray for us.
did u go to college, return orthodoxy?
also what college are u at 'fatherbishoykamel'?
lol, Fr. Bishoy Kamel is a famous Alexandrian priest. He is considered a saint by many people. Here is a brief biography: http://st-takla.org/Priest-Fr-Bishoy-Kamel.html
He even has his own wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishoy_Kamel
Hey guys, I have been thinking of starting a forum were people can discuss their academic stories mostly their stories of entering med school, and their experiences. I'm a second year college student, and I feel it's important to hear from others and learn from their experiences.
You certainly do not want to hear my demotivational story. I can see why you asked though. I hear you!
As for Deacon mnc_hnn, I would like to hear your story (if you don't mind sharing). I feel these are issues we as coptic youth should share, and learn from our beloved sisters and brothers who have more experience then us.
My beloved sister Mnc_hnn, I apologize for mistaking you as a male. Please forgive me, and I would like to hear your story as I stated earlier.
No problem, I don't mind being a deacon ;D
Fr. Bishoy Kamel's brief biography made me cry!
There is a movie, I saw it. It was cool. Was a long time ago though so I can't remember which website
I walked out from my university exam certain that I failed. Even started planning for the summer retakes and letting everyone know i can't make any plans this summer.
God had other plans :) I prayed and I just told him I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think I can go through revision of this module again. I will fail the year. He had mercy on me. I finally have proof that God's got my back and I can't be happier. It is a miracle indeed. When so many students failed, God let me pass by a FRACTION of a mark. Thank God for today, yesterday and tomorrow!
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Fr. Bishoy Kamel's brief biography made me cry!
There is a movie, I saw it. It was cool. Was a long time ago though so I can't remember which website
Thanks, I'll look for that movie!
I was thinking...a personality like Fr. Bishoy Kamel's would be a good one to have in the Medical profession. (Actually his personality would be good in any profession!). Because a good 'bedside' manner is very important for a doctor to have. And it would be a blessing to the sick to have such compassionate treatment.
Sorry, I do not know any 'real' stories of med life; only what I see on t.v., like Grey's Anatomy etc. and I've only just started watching it bcuz I found the drama to be too disconcerting. Then suddenly, I just connected with it and couldn't stop watching; just to be tormented with the horrible finale! If Med School is anything like how t.v. and the movies portray it........God help us all!
Though I am very interested in the healing process and how Christ healed people, I can not stomach the smell or sight of blood too much.
I studied veterinary surgery for a bit. It was a harsh life for me. It was before I was baptized and I had no family support. The smells, the euthanasia, the constant drama took its toll on me. I broke my arm in a bike accident and ended my career.
I would love to say things gets better after school. It doesn't. I have many more stories of abuse during residency and private practice. It never ends. I occasionally run into financial disaster and I become depressed that I can't pay bills. But I continue to do the best I can and God takes care of the rest. This has been the fundamental foundation of my Coptic faith.
Isn't it wonderful we have a powerful, merciful and loving God? Isn't wonderful to be Coptic Orthodox?
college is not always so awful, but sometimes we have harsh things in life that are hard to go through.
it is true to say that God takes care of us, though.
our job is to ask for help when we are struggling, and this way we can become more humble.
i had lots of bullying in school and in work, so i know very well how it is to have your career nearly destroyed or to fail exams because of bullying.
every time i really struggled, God sent someone to encourage me to keep following Him and to spend time praying and connecting with His love.
i know now that it was good for me to go through the hard times, in order to help others who also have hard times. i know how it is to have terrible work colleagues, so i try to be supportive to my colleagues.
even if we fail exams, this is not very important. what is important is to learn from God and to be more like Jesus Christ and the saints.
it is great to have stories of the saints, as some were educated and some were not. (saint peter was considered uneducated and he got 3 letters into the Bible! no one on earth has a list of publications like that!)
so you don't need to be educated or to pass exams in order to serve God.
unfortunately (for any students reading this!) we do not become more like Jesus by being lazy, so if you are studying, do it as if you were doing it for the Lord, if you are cleaning toilets or wiping bottoms, do it as if for the Lord. if you are running a business, do it as if for the Lord, taking care of your employees and the poor. if you are working for a horrible boss, imagine how much the Lord loves him or her.
read ephesians 6 (especially verse 7).
may God bless u all in your work and study.
Thank you so much for sharing your touching and clearly personal experience.
Your confession of the power, mercy and love of God has great force given how much you have suffered and endured; but it has exceedingly greater force given that you have braced yourself to suffer and endure further.
May your life continue to glorify our Lord Whose Strength is best made known in weakness, and may He always supply you with sufficiency in everything you need to abound in every good work!
God bless you.
Dear Mabsoota,
Thank you also for sharing your similarly moving experience. What a selfless attitude to life to disavow concern with the question of how to overcome one's harships and struggles and to instead be absorbed by the question of how one's hardships and struggles can serve to edify others and bring glory to God.
Thank you for the much needed wisdom which I, and many others I'm sure needed to be reminded of!
God bless you.
I have a story from dental school. Apparently I rubbed the professor in charge of my group the wrong way. It's strange since I never said anything to anybody while in school. I only wanted to finish and get a diploma. But this professor seemed to want to mold me by abusing me. He constantly forced me to sign up with him during clinical visits while everyone else enjoyed laid back professors. One time as I was working with him on a patient, I was observing his technique. Later that day, he taught a course to the entire class. He purposely looked for me before asking his question so no one else would answer. He wanted me to repeat all the steps of his technique in his order. When I got one step wrong, he threw the eraser at me across the room. Everyone thought it was a joke. It wasn't. This triggered my clinical depression and all I wanted to do was get on a bus for 8 hours and go home. His abuse continued and I just did what I was supposed to do to the best of my ability. On the day of my graduation, this professor came up to my parents and said "It was a pleasure working with me and I always did outstanding work." Of course, my parents knew what he did. I initially thought he was simply lying to my parents. But I know believe God changed his heart and mine too. He gave me the strength to battle through depression and the abuse and help me through school. Then he softened the professor's heart and he realized I proved myself in God's way, not his.
I would love to say things gets better after school. It doesn't. I have many more stories of abuse during residency and private practice. It never ends. I occasionally run into financial disaster and I become depressed that I can't pay bills. But I continue to do the best I can and God takes care of the rest. This has been the fundamental foundation of my Coptic faith.
Isn't it wonderful we have a powerful, merciful and loving God? Isn't wonderful to be Coptic Orthodox?
Your story is very distressing even just to read! I don't think I could survive such a hostile life. It is very easy to fall into depression repeatedly. It takes a lot of fighting to say no, I do not want to fall again.
The problem with depression is that it even compromises your mental ability so even when you try to study, you can't take anything in. It's a horrible disease. Good that Jesus is the cure.
Can we discuss SCIENCE?
Haha, wrong site I think