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It was an awesome moment in my life. Yesterday, Drexel University College of Medicine's Class of 2010 received our white coats!
For the uninitiated, the White Coat Ceremony is a newer tradition in the medical community where a few speakers comment on the profession and discusses the tenets of science, education, compassion and ethics that are important to a career as a physician. The class recites the Hippocratic Oath for the first time as new initiates into the profession.
Our keynote speaker was Dr. Richard V. Homan.
http://www.drexelmed.edu/med/news/newsprint.asp?ID=51
His speech focused and stressed Humanism in Medicine and for me it was an emotional moment...the culmination of years of perserverance, desire and a little bit of luck. Today, it all came together in the realization that I am in the right place at the right time to start my career in medicine.
As IF I needed any more affirmation of how perfect everything is coming together, I was driving home on the Schuylkill Expressway and the traffic was light and the sun was setting in the west. I flipped around on the radio stations and landed on U2's "Beautiful Day". The lyrics might not apply or make sense, but the refrain is......Perfect.
It's a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
It's a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
For the uninitiated, the White Coat Ceremony is a newer tradition in the medical community where a few speakers comment on the profession and discusses the tenets of science, education, compassion and ethics that are important to a career as a physician. The class recites the Hippocratic Oath for the first time as new initiates into the profession.
Our keynote speaker was Dr. Richard V. Homan.
http://www.drexelmed.edu/med/news/newsprint.asp?ID=51
His speech focused and stressed Humanism in Medicine and for me it was an emotional moment...the culmination of years of perserverance, desire and a little bit of luck. Today, it all came together in the realization that I am in the right place at the right time to start my career in medicine.
As IF I needed any more affirmation of how perfect everything is coming together, I was driving home on the Schuylkill Expressway and the traffic was light and the sun was setting in the west. I flipped around on the radio stations and landed on U2's "Beautiful Day". The lyrics might not apply or make sense, but the refrain is......Perfect.
It's a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
It's a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
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