Limits of Healthcare through Language

People are always sayin' about immigrants that you know they came to this country, they should learn the language. (I've met 2 people in the pharmacy that shares this belief so strongly - I believe they are conservatives and Catholics.)

But, in the realm of healthcare in the United States, or just even health care in general, it goes beyond that. As more or less as health care workers like even in a pharmacy, it goes beyond whether or not we are in the US, South Africa or you know anywhere in the world. Health care is about helping people, caring about people, helping them live better lives. And so, in order to better provide care for our respective populations, we can learn Spanish, we can learn Chinese - we can utilize our contracted language services instead of being stiff, stubborn and narrow-minded that we can only provide health care services, well not even services let alone communication, only in English. So, we can learn the language we can learn the culture. We can. Si se puede.

If you are a health care worker, do you not care about your patients/customers/clients? You would want to help them. And, we are always looking for better ways in which we can impart care. Health care is a universal thing. All countries, all cultures, they understand and share much in common in regards to basic systems - family, health, money, language, culture, government. These concepts flow through each economy, each nation, each country, each culture. Among them, with language we can go beyond. When you can understand another language, it's like you feel their soul.

Think about this:
Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Girls Sentiments on sharedtalk.com & My longing for Spring Break!

I don't know why people think it is so awkward and weird to just start talking to people, new people. maybe they see it's a different means of communication like the internet, or that they see that someone else is different from themselves. Girls are soooo weird. Idk, maybe it is just people.

Why make things awkward when they don't have to be??? THIS I do not understand.

Girls, I tell ya, hahaha.

Well this whole thought came from my teacher for Intermediate Spanish for Healthcare Professionals asked us if we tried the sharedtalk.com. There's 3 fluent Spanish speakers in the class of which 2 were there today. There were a lot of people missing from class today. Then there was me, who is like intermediate to advanced...ish. and then there's basically all the other girls that are beginners - 5 of them today were present. But yea they think it is weird to be talking to a stranger I guess, but I was like huH? what no. and my fluent friend was kinda of like cause you are into it or something like cause I want to do it. Well, I think also one of the beginners this blonde chick like genuinely wants to know more Spanish and be able to use it in practice, I really feel that from her and she is hesistant to break out her Spanish, actually as well as other girls in my class are as well.

mannnn one more week and then spring break! and i can be pretty free to do what I like. I don't want to work tooo much because I want to spend some time studying by myself and enjoying my time especially enjoying my time with my laptop, catch up on some movies, catch up on the knowledge I am supposed to know for school, for pharmacy, for my career - I am such a slacker. Much to do. It is coming up to be my turn for speaker next week and it's for Bioorganic Chemistry - my least strongest subject, although I have said that Organic Chemistry is my favorite subject, god I feel like such a poser!!@@ What to do with myself!! Must be a better student!! I cannot miss anymore classes and pull any all-nighters!!

P2: Fall Schedule

1 PHRX 4010 - CPPS II
1 PHRX 4020 - PPE III
3 PHRX 4030 – Foundations in Pharmaceutics II
1 PHRX 4031 – Dosage Forms Preparation Lab II
5 PHRX 4040 – Psychiatry Module
2 PHRX 4041 – Immunology Module
2 PHRX 4050 – Pharmacy Practice Management
3 CHIN 1111 - Elementary Chinese: Business Focus
18

BAILE?
Collegiate Health Corp.?
Lip Sync?
South Singles
Dancing
Parying
Bars
Hanging out
Have a car?
Continuing to learn other languages
FUN

Late Night shared(talk) Encounter

So I hopped online cause I kinda of couldn't sleep.

I talked to a Mexican last night. But heh, to be more specific his name is Yuki. Aaand he's 100% Japanese, studying Psychology at university in Mexico DF, and he plays in a multi-racial multi-genre band. They compose their own stuff and they change up who sings all the time and they all play multiple instruments. He has 5 piercings on his left ear. I wonder what this guy looks like!! Oh yea he says he designs clothes and dances, too!

Oh man, so I went to sleep maybe 2am and woke up at 1pm... insane. I was supposed to work and then meet up with a friend to study. I work 9 to 12 - totally slept through that!

So now I showered, ate lunch, did some videos for Spanish, and now I need to write something on the discussion board, then read for CPPS, then pharmaceutics, then nutrition studying! tomorrow I have a full packed day. Yesterday, I handed in my homework but I forgot to finish one problem so I have to get it back tomorrow and finish it!!

Incompetence & Change

I have a lot of catching up to do!

Somehow I've gotten through my prereqs and got into Pharmacy school, crazy, right? And I haven't absorbed all the knowledge that I have supposed to have learned! It's ridiculous! Feel incompetent and stupid and try not to show it ya know.

I'm like dedicated, but not. It's like how people think I run a lot, but I really don't.

I need to give up dairy for a while, though then I don't know what I can eat kinda thing then, there's so much dairy in the dining hall, well then I hope to limit. Hmmm this IS why I like to go home from time to time, right? Cause I need rice! Real rice!

I need to work on my fitness period, that's it.

Tan

I want to go somewheres and get crazy tan!!!! TAN SAN!!!!!!!

Happy - ish ish ish

Happy I got my
-Spanish keyboard toggle works
-music to work ;)

slowly I am getting things in order

gotta buckle dooown

gotta figure out some deadlines, let's see:
-class registration starts 3/23

PHRX 4010 1 CPPS II
PHRX 4020 1 PPE III
PHRX 4030 3 Foundations in Pharmaceutics II
PHRX 4031 1 Dosage Forms Preparation Laboratory II
PHRX 4040 5 Psychiatry Module
PHRX 4041 2 Immunology Module
PHRX 4050 2 Pharmacy Practice Management
CHIN 1111 3 Beginner Chinese: Business Focus
3 Latino Healthcare
9 classes ya?, or maybe just 8 plus an EKIN class
-housing selection: idk when... south suites? or south singles?

oh yea news:
I didn't make LatinFest :shrugs: I guess I will still go. Hopefully some fun people will be there, ya?

FuchA

Spr09
Intermed Spanish for HCPs
Quantitative Pharmacy
Pharmacy Research Seminar
LatinFest '09
21!!!
Party with twins before they leave!
Spring Break:
-help Wooin's daughter with Spanish (New Canaan trip),
-visit Palisades mall?
-work @ CVS as much as possible
-Diabetes testing thing
-get laptop case

Sum09
CVS Internship
-work at other CVS Pharmacies, ie White St. and South St.
-establish proficiency in community pharmacy
-identify drugs in the pharmacy from what I have learned from courses
2nd job?
Hospital Pharm Hrs?
California - SF, LA
Nevada - LV
Continue practicing Spanish with sharedtalk.com and other programs I've found
Self-teach Chinese
Self-teach French
Self-teach Italian
Review Pharmacy materials
Get a car

Fall09
Chinese I
Elective - Latino Health Care?
Hospital Pharm Hrs?
Lip Sync?
Continue working at CVS so I can work over the Winter break, ya?

Winter
CVS
Hospital Pharm Hrs?

Spr10
Chinese II
Hospital Pharm Hrs?
LatinFest '10
Graduate! Degree - Pharmacy Studies, BS

Sum10
Study Abroad - Beijing, China - TCM
new internship? (would have to start in June)

Fall10
Start of P3 year!
Lip Sync?

Winter

Spr11
White Coat Ceremony
LatinFest '11

Sum11
and
on...
P4 rotations!!!

CHSC

Collegiate Health Services Corp = CHSC
:sigh:

Pay attention to these sequences... these dates.

I went to the info session on Friday. I went to my interview on Monday. I found out the site and day I was interested in was full. I don't understand why it is full. AND if it was full, then why even bother putting it on the list to choose froM?!!!!????

And so the girl said she would let me know I think Wednesday or Thursday, but it was one of those days. Then it got postponed til Friday. But then I didn't see anything in my e-mail on Friday. I saw Josh at the dining hall around dinnertime and he said it would be announced that evening. So... I didn't get anything. I e-mailed them again saying, I guess I didn't get it, but thank you - well that was it more or less. But the girl said she'd try to ask if they needed help for the Friday site. I don't think she understood =( But she e-mailed me back saying that they may be setting up a Saturday site and they'd contact me if anything. =/

So I wait and see, and wish for more.

GOAL IN CLASS

Participate in class more
participate in every pharmaceutics discussion section
talk in class

Languages

Languages to learn...
Spanish
Chinese - Mandarin
Italian - I heard Italian is close to Latin!!
French

Bad sleep can affect my whole day.