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This book has been a self-reflective journey of a medical doctor as an ordinary person going through ordinary life's ups and downs. In epistolary form, its articles were written during the special time of her first year of training to become a general practitioner/family physician, including making the tough decision to give up hospital specialist training, "withdrawing" from fast-paced hospital work, transitioning to working from a metropolitan hospital to a rural community clinic, witnessing and getting used to a younger sibling's growing up, and being independent from a close and loving family. Some also feature a promotion of the author's new academic career at the start of the COVID 19 pandemic and how it was perceived. The book shows a journey of love, strength, perseverance, purpose and encouragement. Lots of anecdotes, lots of stories, lots of quotes. With love and respect.
Read an Excluseive Excerpt
Dude, no matter how old we are, and however self-sufficient we are as adults, we are forever children in our parents’ eyes. At times, I secretly get cross that too much food is being packed for me, but I understand that it is not the food that matters; in reality, Mum and Dad are packing their kind, tender, unfailing love into big and small bags for me—for us—to take home. This small yet significant gesture is one they do carefully, tirelessly, and lovingly. Complaints that the food is too much and we are never going to finish it cause them a sense of hurt, as they take it personally, as a sign of unlove and discontent. So I accept it graciously for what it is. Brother … think of the days where Mum and Dad prepared us a routine, normal meal and we felt very content and happy. That’s how Mum and Dad are conditioned to be. They miss the days when we were with them, enjoying home-made meals at the family table. They love us unconditionally, and by feeding us and ensuring that we are healthy, by cooking herbal and medicinal soups and dishes and packing healthy veggies, fruits, and snacks for us (that they deem too expensive to eat themselves), they feel useful and loved again. May God help us be considerate children for our parents and love them as they love us. By better appreciating them, you will be a better parent when the baby is born. Honour your parents, as God commands. May God bless them as well! Yay, we are family forever, even in Heaven!
About the Author:Kathryn Lee is a medical doctor. A Christian. A daughter. A sister. A student in life university. An ordinary person in an extraordinary world.
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