Reflection
(Defining Moments)
DR. Ma. Lourdes G. Lagunilla
Student Number: R1322
Submitted to: Professor Jorge Saguinsin
July 10, 2015
1. What is the new learning?
2. What is the relation to what I already know?
3. What have I done, am doing, will be doing for this topic?
As early as my college years, I saw and felt the need to study and work harder. My father was employed as an XRaytechnician at Clark Air Base and my mother is a textile retailer. We were five siblings in the family and I was the fourth. With very limited resources, my parents can only send one child to college in good schools Our eldest finished his Marketing Course in San Beda supported by my parents. My two elder brothers were in College at the same time. The second in the family graduated with honors and pursued Chemical Engineering course at De La Salle Taft and this was made possible by a scholarship of the GI Bill of rights which I financed my B. S. medical Technology Premed course and later the Doctor of Mecicine degree. This GI bill of rights scholarship was awarded to my father who was a veteran. My father has always emphasized that the only legacy he wil give is our education as there is no wealth he can give us. I knew I have to get not only the most expensive but most prestigious course that will bring improvement and progress to our family and myself. It was not very easy but at least the finance was the least of the problem of my parents to bring me to become a doctor.
Right after I passed the Physician's licensure exam, I knew I will be on my own. Though my parents are still generous, just right after passing the Physician' licensure exam, our textile retail business store was caught in a fire. I knew then as much as my parents would like to support I took the first hospital I applied for the Hospital of the Infant Jesus to start my residency training in Pediatrics for an honorarium pay then of P 2,000 back in 1982. The training was tough especially working with senior residents who were intimidating and sometimes would bully a junior resident like me. During this difficult times, I applied in another training institution which was a government hospital, then Lungsod ng Kabataan now the Philippine Children's Hospital which gave a higher pay and more exposure. The culture in residency training is almost the same where hierarchy is very much a practice. I was able to go through the 3 year residency.
