Jacky Lai

  Being an intern for a month or so, I start to recognize how my life's gonna be in the rest of my life.  I am now in the department of Physical Medication and Rehabilitation, know as PM&R.  It's a subspecialty that began during the 2nd World War and Vietnam.  While facing a resource shortage, "recycling" is always the first principle of resolution.  That's the original concept of rehabilitation - menpower recycling.  Since it takes too much time to "produce" a well-trained warrior, it'll be much easier to re-use wounded soldiers than to train new recruits.  Thus, medics selected those who weren't badly injured and designed a program to restore their capibility of fighting.  In a hospital, rehabilitation program is designed to restore the capibility of daily life activity for those who suffered from neurological events.  Because our patients have been strictly selected, we usually wouldn't have emergent medical issues.  Thus, duty day here is relatively easy, or to be more precise, boring, quite different from what I had in neurology ward.  But seeing them putting themselves together and trying to walk on their own again is quite a privilege.  We can't see such progress anywhere else. 

  Since I definitely need a great re-energizing, I'm thinking of starting a "weekly series" - "Jacky's Weekly Journal Review."  There're already tons of "NEJM weekly summary" or stuffs like that in my mailbox, but honestly I pay very little attention on those.  And I guess that it might be helpful to catch up with the latest updates in the journals if I wrote a weekly review by myself.  Besids, I definitely need more practice in English, 'cuz I found myself easily getting stuck while "utilizing" this language.