Patricia Foo's Blog

Rice pudding and delicious travels to come

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:54:06 -0800

It's about time I got around to adding a "Food" category. Anyone that knows me well knows that this category should have existed from the very beginning.

No time for reasons

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:48:24 -0800

When I was interviewing at a school in the midwest more than a year ago now, my faculty interviewer commented on the "overly metaphoric" nature of my personal essay. I had opened that essay and thus my medical career through the lens of a seventh grade frog dissection.

California sunshine

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:50:28 -0800

I find that I tend to blog only in stressful times or when I have a serious topic on my mind. But in reality, that's not what my life is like all or even most of the time. Thus, in an attempt to provide some balance, I've decided to make a conscious effort to blog about happy, light-hearted thoughts too.

Standards

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:06:38 -0800

Amidst all the factual learning (or memorization, some might call it) that happens in medical school, I find myself often distracted by softer questions. Morality, biases, standards, death...often weighty topics for which I haven't yet found a good forum for contemplation or discussion. Most recently, the two topics that came about in thought and in conversation were standards and biases.

No regrets, no edits

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:37:41 -0800

Today was the first day of my second quarter of med school. And yes, this is my first "real," non-introductory entry. For this, I apologize.

The About Me Entry

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:26:45 -0800

We of the Friendster, AIM, Facebook, MySpace, blogging generation have become adept at answering the perennial, electronic "About Me" question. Or at least, we should have. And yet, confronted again with this question, I find myself turned-around by a multitude of things that could be said, that should be said, that won't be said...