The Hunter Monologue

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……. Lonely is the hunter who, coming upon his prey, prepares to put to use the skills that have made him what he is today. So, with a dauntless stance and awesome stare that would send terror through the bravest of men, the hunter sends his shot through a senseless air - and the hunter has won again ....... Lori and I stayed in Wilkes-Barre until my father was released from the hospital. As we were driving my father home, he noticed my black medical bag on the back seat of the car. When I told him the bag contained all my medical instruments, he asked me if I would examine him before we left for Philadelphia. Lori smiled, and couldn't resist the temptation to tell my father I performed some examinations better than others. When we arrived …show more content…

He just shook his head and told me he knew a toy when he saw one. In spite of my father's comments, I used my "bag full of toys" to give him, by his own admission, the most thorough examination of his life. When he asked me how everything appeared, I told him he looked like "a million bucks - in …show more content…

Before the start of my first rotation, I knew I would have to visit Seymour Levene and fork over fifty bucks for a more professional-appearing stethoscope. Before the second year was over, we were asked to select the hospitals where we wanted to take each of our third-year clerkships. Our preferences for each of the six-week rotations were, by and large, based on the individual prejudices of the upper year students whose advice we invoked in such matters. There were many factors that went into selecting the right rotations, but there were no guarantees even a string of rotations at Utopia General would meet all of any one student's needs or expectations. There were six third-year clerkships that included: Pediatrics, Obstetrics-Gynecology, Surgery, Psychiatry, and two separate rotations in Internal Medicine. The final six-week block of the third year was reserved for a second lecture series in Clinical Medicine. The purpose of this course was to tie the individual clerkships together and introduce the material that would make up Part II of the National

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