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卓約柏(Joshua Cho)海外醫療中心暑假短期研習心得

In retrospect， working for CCH was perhaps one of the most exciting yet daring enterprises that I have ever undertaken. Ever since childhood， I have been carefully placed in an invisible shield of complete safety. I have never made any big mistakes; not because I was just that perfect but because there simply was no reason for mistakes. My brother and I had been constantly reminded of the things that we ought to do and the things that we never should do. Basically， the road was beautifully paved for us – we just needed to walk on it.

Things got even more complicated or， in other word， safer when I started following my brother’s footstep and entered a laboratory in 9^th grade. Some might think that laboratories are dangerous and that it might turn people into Spiderman or， more realistically， give people cancer or all sorts of diseases; however， it might as well be the least interesting (other than those short moments of discovery) and safest place on Earth. In this four-walled room， there were only two things that I could do and have done: constant pipetting and mental gymnastics. After 4 years of pipetting and mentally jumping around the fine line that separates craziness and reality， I have had enough. The most excitement that I have gotten out of staying in the laboratory for the past four years was the feeling of discovery followed by another discovery that disproved the previous one. The cycle went on and on. Getting bored of this endlessness， I decided to try something else. This was the road from which I came. This was the place from which I fled.

I wasn’t looking for danger， but I sure wasn’t looking for anything that would put me back into that dome of security and monotony. I wanted to grow more branches to my withered tree of personality， to add more sauce to this plain bowl of rice. Therefore， I needed something that would open up the window to the outside world. Coincidentally， Dr. Kao has given me what I asked for – in fact， more than what I asked for. She allowed me to see the world， help those who are in need， and， most importantly， introduced me to the world of reality. I no longer see the world through a bulletproof glass.

Three days after the start of my internship， I was shipped off to Myanmar with a group of God-loving seminary students and ready-to-serve medical personnel. Even though I wasn’t really ready to face uncertainty of this grand scale， my “hit-me-with-all-you’ve -got” mentality worked perfectly during those 12 memorable days. I seemed to narrow my everyday life to three simple acts: survive， serve， and cooperate.

In many Third World Southeast Asian countries， life is much more different than the one in advanced economy countries such as Taiwan and the United States. Survival， instead of luxury and quality， becomes the only foundation of life in these third world countries. So what does survival mean? It means that there is nothing wrong with showering with cold water， sleeping with insects that you would rather not know where they

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卓約柏(Joshua Cho)海外醫療中心暑假短期研習心得