New Orleans . . .

I can’t believe what is happening there . . . Some of these articles from the NYtimes are just crazy. Look at this one about the Haves and Have Nots

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05moving.html

What I really can’t get my brain around is that while people are suffering in NO, Rwanda, Burundi, China, India, all over the world, I am in my room, socks off, music playing, stomach full trying to study Cardiovascular physiology so that I can be a doctor AND THEN help people.

Meanwhile, people are dying and there is nothing that I can do but study? Do the ends of being a doctor justify the complacency one must embrace as a med student? Apparently they do or else I am just too selfish to act otherwise. Perhaps thats it, perhaps I am just to selfish or afraid to give myself to others. I think I have to get around the thought that its MY med school education. To date my decisions have revolved around what I thought was best for me rather than really helping people for their sake. I suppose thats why living with Deo is so enlightening because he is definitely one person that knows what it means to live for others and not for himself.

I guess the question remains, can I motivate myself to selflessness without being led by someone like Deo?