Dooley Noted: 9/7/2014
These last two weeks have been wonderful, and I return to NYC renewed and invigorated. I’m also armed with some things I learned.
1. Show up, and others will, too.
2. When you’re injured, you, too, must deload. And patients are right: it stinks. But the gain outweighs the loss.
3. Ask your loved ones to watch you teach. They get that look on their face of understanding – of all the long hours, all the constant commuting, all the weekends lost. A calling is a calling.
4. Sprint more, jog less, walk more, whine less.
5. If you don’t have Grenadian hills, always take the stairs.
6. Those hills and stairs go quicker if you sprint them.
7. Schedule in your training as if it’s an appointment that can’t be broken.
8. If you can help, then help.
9. Never eat from beachside barbecue buffets.
10. The overuse of sunscreen seems like a pretty ridiculous concept, particularly the chemically laden kind.
It’s hard to believe this was my tenth trip to Grenada to help the marvelous students at SGU Med.
And now, it’s time for my favorite time of year: fall in New York.
But perhaps just one last Caribbean sunset view is warranted, to be commemorated here.
As always, it’s your call.
– Dr. Kathy Dooley
