Working with patients can be very rewarding.

Yet at the same time it can be frightening.

Seeing your potential future sitting across from you can be a bit humbling.

Ive seen in the last couple weeks:

• 84 yo woman with severe Alzheimer's (didn't remember the doc after 15 minutes)
• 25 yo woman with stage 3 breast cancer spread to lungs, liver and bone
• 69 yo woman with osteoarthritis, super flat and painful feet
• 30 yo woman with painful ankles so bad not able to walk secondary to corticosteroid use
• 54 yo man with brain cancer
• 41 yo woman with severe depression, anxiety
• 36 yo man stated he was suicidal with a plan & we held him until authorities came - by law
• 60 yo man with diabetes type 2, celiac, 3 heart attacks, hypothyroidism and kidney disease
  

It is pretty scary realizing that we are prone to so many different health conditions.

Yet it is powerful knowing that if we take some minor lifestyle steps, we can avoid many of these horrific health conditions.

Here I am typing that sentence and it is 1:34 am and I have Neurology at 8am.

Many professors state that medical school is the unhealthiest years of your life. Now I know see that loud and clear.

Since I gave bad news - let me end on good news.

In the last couple weeks I have seen patients with:

• horrific hayfever improve completely by using a homepathic remedy
• incessant coughing for 3 weeks, missing medical school lectures improved after 2 days of my treatment protocol - see this blog post
  
• infertile woman becoming fertile after cleansing - she emailed me today with that news.
• irritable, farting woman much better after a simple herbal tea we prescribed - her son said - "wow Mom - you are much nicer!"

So that is medicine I guess. You try your damndest to improve people's health and sometimes you can guide them down the right road and sometimes nature has a different road map determined.

I love medicine and am extremely happy that I am pursuing it. It has been a very tough and difficult road for myself and my family. In the end, I foresee it being quite beneficial emotionally, spiritually and financially.

Pursue your dreams - no matter what others think of them. They are your dreams. Just make them tangible - not out there and impossible to obtain. It is not healthy teasing yourself.

Make a goal, write it down and obtain it. Then go for the next one.

Live life well. You never know how long you're here on lovely planet Earth.