by smiphilly | Sep 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
My heart was crushed, feeling as if it were being wrung to death. The woman before me, completely undone, was soaked in tears after recounting the past year. Six months ago she suffered a miscarriage, and not too long afterwards, she found out that her fiancée had...
by smiphilly | Aug 6, 2015 | SMI 2015
What do we see when we look at a city like Northern Philadelphia? What do we think when our eyes glaze over the boarded up row homes and graffiti-laced buildings, or the discarded syringes and empty wax-paper packets scattered across the sidewalks? I think...
by smiphilly | Aug 6, 2015 | SMI 2015
Evangelism. So there is a lot of thinking I still have to do about how to carry this out in my daily medical practice. One concept which I had not really connected to bearing witness to Christ as a doctor – because we will not always receive a good opportunity to...
by smiphilly | Jul 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
I don’t know if I am numb, empathetic, or angry. The past two weeks have been a whirlwind of physical, emotional, and spiritual exhaustion. After living in West Philadelphia for the past 5 years for pharmacy school, I have always been actively looking on the street...
by smiphilly | Jul 20, 2015 | SMI 2015
While at SMI, I’ve had the privilege to learn so much about a community which despite numerous tragedies has been welcoming. I am amazed to look into the eyes of someone who doesn’t know me, yet trusts me enough to invite me into their personal space – their home – to...
