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Summer semester has ended and it was the best semester yet. I just finished Rehab Psych (SLCC PTA 2550/Ken Freeman). It was an incredible course and felt more like I was listening to a motivational speaker than a professor. It was a life changing experience and gave me a different perspective that will help me become the clinician patients deserve. Here are some of my favorite quotes (you'll have to forgive me I don't know who they are all by):

"We don't serve from open wounds, we serve from scars."
"I don't consider it my job, I consider it my calling."
"You can if you do."

"If beauty comes, it comes startled, hiding scars, out of what can barely be endured." -Stephen Dunn, Different Hours
"Chronic pain is not a medical condition, it is an interpretation."-Wilbert Fordyce, PhD
"Pain behaviors are only useful in the presence of an audience."-Wilbert Fordyce, PhD

from My Grandfather's Blessings by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.:
"It is hard not to see the person you are helping as someone weaker than yourself..."
"But we do not serve with our strength; we serve with ourselves. We draw from all our experiences."
"Many times my limitations have become the source of my compassion, my wounds have made me gentle with the wounds of other people, and able to trust the mysterious process by which we can heal."
"When we serve, we see the unborn wholeness in others; we collaborate with it and strengthen it. Others may then be able to see their wholeness for themselves for the first time."


Last but not least, anyone who works in health care needs to watch the movie Wit with Emma Thompson. Stock up on your tissues though, this movie is a tear jerker with great examples of the biomedical professional vs a clinician who demonstrates the true art of medicine.