Medical Missionary

I just want to share what Renny have shared with me. :) Thanks Renny. Really appreciate it. :)
GB guys.

"Often erroneous opinions are transcribed on the mind, and these lead to an unwise course of action. Students should have time to talk with God, time to live in hourly, conscious communion with the principles of truth and righteousness and mercy. At this time straightforward investigation of the heart is essential. The student must place himself where he can draw from the Source of spiritual and intellectual power. He must require that every cause which asks his sympathy and co-operation has the approval of the reason which God has given him, and the conscience, which the Holy Spirit is controlling. He is not to perform an action that does not harmonize with the deep, holy principles which minister light to his soul and vigor to his will. Only thus can he do God the highest service. He is not to be taught that medical missionary work will bind him to any man, who shall dictate what his work shall be. {8T 164.1}

Medical missionary work is not to be drawn apart and made separate from church organization. The medical students are not to receive the idea that they may regard themselves as amenable only to the leaders in the medical work. They are to be left free to receive counsel from God. They are not to pledge themselves and their future to anything that erring human beings may outline for them. No thread of selfishness is to be drawn into the web; no scheme is to be devised that has in it one particle of injustice. Selfishness is not to control any line of the work. Let us remember that individually we are working in full view of the heavenly universe. {8T 164.2} "

"Genuine medical missionary work is the gospel practiced. Those who cannot see the bearing of this work should not feel authorized to control any phase of it until they do understand its bearing. "

"What a change would be seen if all who are in responsible positions would realize that they are working under the eye of an all-seeing God. What is needed now is the free working of the Holy Spirit on mind and heart. Without this our efforts will be fruitless. When the Spirit molds and fashions us, our words and acts will reveal heartfelt thanksgiving. "

"The medical missionary workers are to be purified, sanctified, ennobled. They are to rise to the highest point of excellence. They are to be molded and fashioned after the divine similitude. Then they will see that health reform and medical missionary work are to be bound up with the preaching of the gospel. "

"The medical missionary work is of God and bears His signature. For this reason let man keep his hands off it and not desire to manage it according to his own ideas." T8, p.169, 170

Differences Between Graduate Nurses and Experienced Nurses

A Graduate Nurse throws up when the patient does.
An experienced nurse calls housekeeping when a patient throws up

A Graduate Nurse wears so many pins on their name badge you can´t read it.
An experienced nurse doesn´t wear a name badge for liability reasons

A Graduate Nurse charts too much.
An experienced nurse doesn´t chart enough.

A Graduate Nurse loves to run to codes.
An experienced nurse makes graduate nurses run to codes.

A Graduate Nurse wants everyone to know they are a nurse.
An experienced nurse doesn´t want anyone to know they are a nurse.

A Graduate Nurse keeps detailed notes on a pad.
An experienced nurse writes on the back of their hand, paper scraps, napkins, etc.

A Graduate Nurse will spend all day trying to reorient a patient.
An experienced nurse will chart the patient is disoriented and restrain them.

A Graduate Nurse can hear a beeping I-med at 50 yards.
An experienced nurse can´t hear any alarms at any distance.

A Graduate Nurse loves to hear abnormal heart and breath sounds.
An experienced nurse doesn´t want to know about them unless the patient is symptomatic.

A Graduate Nurse spends 2 hours giving a patient a bath.
An experienced nurse lets the CNA give the patient a bath.

A Graduate Nurse thinks people respect Nurses.
An experienced nurse knows everybody blames everything on the nurse.

A Graduate Nurse looks for blood on a bandage hoping they will get to change it.
An experienced nurse knows a little blood never hurt anybody.

A Graduate Nurse looks for a chance "to work with the family."
An experienced nurse avoids the family.

A Graduate Nurse expects meds and supplies to be delivered on time.
An experienced nurse expects them to never be delivered at all.

A Graduate Nurse will spend days bladder training an incontinent patient.
An experienced nurse will insert a Foley catheter.

A Graduate Nurse always answers their phone.
An experienced nurse checks their caller ID before answering the phone.

A Graduate Nurse thinks psych patients are interesting.
An experienced nurse thinks psych patients are crazy.

A Graduate Nurse carries reference books in their bag.
An experienced nurse carries magazines, lunch, and some "cough syrup" in their bag.

A Graduate Nurse doesn´t find this funny.
An experienced nurse does.

Dr. Benjamin S. Carson a Seventh-day Adventist's Pediatric Neurosurgeon. - New York Times, 6/8/1993

SCIENTIST AT WORK:

Benjamin S. Carson; For Many, Pediatric Neurosurgeon Is a Folk Hero

By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG
Published: June 8, 1993

WHEN he first came to Johns Hopkins Hospital as a neurosurgery resident, Dr. Benjamin S. Carson was occasionally mistaken for an orderly. "It wasn't deliberately racist," he recalled, without a trace of bitterness. "It's just that orderlies were the only black hospital employees these people had ever seen before."

Today, at age 41, eight years after becoming the nation's youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery -- he is one of only three African-Americans in that position -- Dr. Carson is arguably the most famous surgeon on the Hopkins staff. As director of the 22-member team that in 1987 successfully separated Siamese twins joined at the head, he was in the national news for weeks.

As a result, he has become something of a folk hero in black neighborhoods, no less for his own story of triumph over adversity than for the dramatic operations he has attempted.

Today his surgical challenges are less bizarre than the Siamese twin separation. But they are still technically complex and emotionally demanding.

As do other neurosurgeons at leading medical centers, Dr. Carson tackles the toughest cases, from congenital dwarfism to inoperable brain tumors, from intractable epilepsy to unremitting facial pain. He tries to wield his scalpel in ways that will restore the body to something approaching normalcy.

"My philosophy is to look at a patient and ask, 'What is the worst that could happen if we do something'? " he explained during a rare free moment in his modern, uncluttered office. "It's usually that the patient ends up seriously debilitated or dead.

"Then I ask, 'What is the worst that could happen if we do nothing?' And it's usually the same thing. So with that as a background, I figure it's always worth trying to do something, if there's any chance at all that doing something might end up helping."

This attitude led Dr. Carson, in 1985, to revive the surgical procedure known as hemispherectomy, the removal of half the brain in a child who is plagued by seizures that do not respond to drugs. The hemispherectomy, first developed in the 1930's, is an operation of epic consequence, performed in the hope that the remaining one can orchestrate thought, speech and movement for the whole body.

After several hundred unsuccessful attempts, the procedure fell into disfavor in the 1970's, not because of the dysfunction resulting from the loss of brain tissue, but because of the nearly inevitable post-surgical complications, including bleeding, infection and problems with the cavity left behind.

But when Dr. Carson met Maranda Francisco, a 4-year-old girl from Denver who was racked by 120 seizures a day, he decided that medicine had advanced sufficiently to give the measure another try.

"The chief of pediatric neurology here, John Freeman, felt that Maranda was a perfect candidate for a hemispherectomy, which he had seen performed a few times while he was at Stanford," Dr. Carson said. "So I did a lot of reading on the subject, and it seemed to me the complications were mostly things we could handle now."

The odds against success were great, but Dr. Carson figured it was worth taking a chance. "I reasoned that she was having so many seizures that she had no life, so there was not really anything to risk," he said. "And there might be a whole world to gain."

Maranda is now a healthy 12-year-old who takes tap-dancing lessons. Like most of the other hemispherectomy patients at Hopkins -- 44 in all, which the hospital believes is more than at any other center in the country -- Maranda got her speech back immediately after surgery, probably because her right hemisphere had already taken over language function from the badly damaged left hemisphere.

The main physical consequences of the loss of half a brain -- paralysis of the opposite side of the body -- was corrected in Maranda's case by several months of physical therapy. Most of the other children have had similar restoration of speech and movement.Dr. Carson estimated that 80 percent of the hemispherectomies done at Hopkins have significantly reduced or eliminated the patients' seizures.

"We can only do this operation on young children, because their brain cells haven't decided what they want to be when they grow up," Dr. Carson said. This flexibility, which neuroscientists call "plasticity," explains why certain brain cells take over the functions of damaged or missing cells.

Heroic as these hemispherectomies have been, the real media attention came after the Siamese twins case, which held a sort of lurid fascination for physicians and lay people alike. When the parents of the twins, Patrick and Benjamin Binder of Ulm, Germany, sent in a request to have their sons operated on at Hopkins, there had never been a successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the head.

It was just the kind of long shot on which Dr. Carson seems to thrive.

The operation, for which the surgical team spent five months rehearsing, lasted 22 hours and involved 70 surgeons, nurses and assistants inside the operating room, and another 70 support staff members outside.

During the operation, Dr. Carson used a new way of buying time for brain repair. It involved hypothermia, cooling the patient's body to 68 degrees to slow brain metabolism sufficiently to allow the surgeons to stop blood flow through the brain for an hour without causing damage.

"I almost didn't make it," he recalled. "After they stopped the heart and set the timer for one hour, I told everyone I didn't want to know how much time we had left."

He managed to separate the two brains in about 20 minutes and to close the skull of the twin he was working on -- with his mentor, neurosurgery chief Dr. Donlin Long, closing the other twin's skull -- in about another 40.

After the operation, the successfully separated twins went home to Ulm. But then, as far as the Hopkins staff was concerned, they disappeared. Despite repeated efforts, Dr. Carson has been unable to find out how Patrick and Benjamin, now 6 years old, are faring.

"I've written so many letters, and I've never gotten any response," he said.

(In Ravensburg, Germany, a local physician said the boys were too disabled to live at home and were staying at a facility for handicapped children in the area.)

"I still believe the surgical procedure itself was an incredible success," he said. "And whenever there's a less-than-ideal result, I feel you must always ask yourself, 'What can I learn from this? How can I do better next time'?"

Although Dr. Carson has occasionally been criticized for publishing his research only infrequently and has had his originality as a scientist questioned, he is unruffled by such comments. A mild, soft-spoken man with an unhurried manner and a ready smile, he projects a sense of confidence, which he attributes to knowing his subject cold, believing in his talent and relying on his religious faith. Beating the Odds

A Seventh-day Adventist, Dr. Carson said one of his favorite sayings is, "Do your best, and let God do the rest."

The most dramatic procedures he performs today involve large brain tumors. When the size of these encroaching tumors is significantly reduced, Dr. Carson said, the stray pieces of cancer that are impossible to remove surgically are often destroyed, even without dangerous radiation therapy.

"If you can reduce the bulk of the tumor and shave it back to normal tissue," he said, "then I believe the body's natural defense mechanisms can keep the rest of it under control."

Beating back nearly insuperable odds, which is what he attempts in the operating room, is also something of a theme in Ben Carson's personal story. His father abandoned the family when Ben Carson was 8, and he grew up in a Detroit ghetto, where his mother provided for her two sons by working several domestic jobs.

After a rocky start in elementary school -- he laughs when he recalls that he was, by universal consensus, the "class dummy" in fifth grade -- he began to excel academically, a fact that he attributes to his mother.

"She made my brother and me turn off the television, restricting us to two or three programs a week," Dr. Carson said. "And she made us read two books a week from the Detroit Public Library, and write book reports for her." It wasn't until years later that the boys discovered that their mother, with a third-grade education, could not read those reports. 'You're my Role Model'

This demanding regimen soon made a mark on young Ben Carson, who graduated third in his high-school class and won an academic scholarship to Yale University, where he majored in psychology.

Now, in between operations and hospital rounds, Dr. Carson, the father of boys whose ages are 9, 8 and 6, frequently delivers inspirational lectures. And he sets aside an hour every month to talk to schoolchildren.

At the most recent such lecture, in mid-May, 750 youngsters from nine schools greeted Dr. Carson's arrival in the Hopkins auditorium with the fanfare usually reserved for rock stars: squeals, applause and requests for his autograph or a chance to snap his photograph.

"You're my role model," one teen-ager told him. "I want to be a brain surgeon, too."

"You hold on to that dream," replied Dr. Carson. Still trim and with a full head of hair, he appears so youthful that in his blue surgical scrubs and white coat he almost looks like someone masquerading as a doctor.

But no one mistakes him for an orderly anymore. Message to Children

At the lectern, his message was simple: "Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain."

The hands that have made him one of the most sought-after neurosurgeons in the country, the hands with the long tapering fingers and immaculate oval nails, gripped the microphone tighter as he delivered the message that has become almost as important to him as the operations he performs.

"You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person," Dr. Carson said. "You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying."

Taken from: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DE1230F93BA35755C0A965958260&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=all

A Blind Girl

      There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind.
She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her.
She told her boyfriend, 'If I could only see the world, I will marry you.'

      One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.

      He asked her,' Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?'
The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.

      Her boyfriend left her in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: 'Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine.'

      This is how the human brain often works when our status changes.
Only a very few remember what life was like before, and who was always by their side in the most painful situations.

      LIFE IS A GIFT.

Today before you say an unkind word -
Think of someone who can't speak.

Before you complain about the taste of your food -
Think of someone who has nothing to eat.

Before you complain about your husband or wife -
Think of someone who's crying out to GOD for a companion.

Today before you complain about life -
Think of someone who went too early to heaven.

Before you complain about your children -
Think of someone who desires children but they're barren.

Before you argue about your dirty house someone didn't clean or sweep -
Think of the people who are living in the streets.

Before whining about the distance you drive -
Think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet.

And when you are tired and complain about your job -
Think of the unemployed, the disabled, and those who wish they had your job.

And when you are mad at someone for letting you down -
Think of all the people who have no one important in their life, and be grateful you have people to love and who love you.

But before you think of pointing the finger or condemning another -
Remember that not one of us is without sin and we all answer to one MAKER.

And when depressing thoughts seem to get you down -
Put a smile on your face and thank GOD you're alive and still around.

Things That Stresses Me Out... According to the most intense...

1. Nursing Program in General

• Clinical hours (ranges from 0500 to 1300)
• Clinical Case Studies / Prep-Sheet
• Clinical regulations et requirements
  
• Clinical instructor et their expectations
• Nursing theories / outlines
• Nursing assignments / projects
  
• Nursing quizes et tests
• Low grade on tests/quizes
  

2. Personal Problems

• Court in Los Angeles, CA on the 28th of October, which is my Clinical day
• Court in Castle Rock, CO on the 3rd of November, which is on my Unit Test day
• Court in Hugo, CO on the 25th of November, which is on my Baby Lab
• CNA certification. I have not yet received my certification even though I've taken and passed the test 2 months ago
• Unable to work. I'm waiting for my CNA certificate to be able to work
• Renewal of Driver License. I need to be reinstated to my insurance company to get my SR-22 to be able to get my driver license.
• Payments for the Insurance
• Payments for the courts' fine

3. Family Problems

• SIGH...

If anyone is reading, please do pray for me.

5 Rules To Gain Body Mass

Body mass is important in body building.

#1 Calories are key, but they’re not everything. -Gives energy.

#2 Concentrate on Protein. -Stimulate muscles.

#3 Eat carb and protein meals after training. -kick-starts the muscle-growth.

#4 Stay hydrated. -Helps you feel full and reduce hunger pangs and also increase performance.

#5 Mass gain vary by individual. -Look at your body level.