Literal:
1. (Know) Using google doc (drive) link a log of specific hours
and a description of your duties (click here for
an example) to your blog post.
2. What is the contact name & number of where you
volunteered?
Stacy Mittelstaedt
Director, Volunteer Services
909-865-9669
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center
3. (Need to know) What questions were raised because of the 10
hours of experience? List them.
How often do cardiologists have to go to the Cath Lab to see
their patients?
Is it ever stressful for the cardiologists?
How far are the offices from the hospital for each cardiologist?
What makes a likable and good cardiologist?
Interpretive
4. What is the most important thing you gained from this
experience? Why?
I would say that the most important thing I learned from this
experience was what a huge blessing it is to have the help of God and a good
character/personality. When I was looking for mentors, Stacy and this one nurse,
JiJi, were asking the cardiologists for me since they knew them on a personal
level. JiJi had asked Dr. Muthiah, but he had refused because he didn't want
someone following him for so many hours. Later that day, I was outside the
operating room watching how the nurses set up and prepared for the surgery for
a patient, and Dr. Muthiah noticed me watching (I didn't know that this was Dr.
Muthiah at the time). He was the cardiologist that was going to perform the
surgery and he told me to follow him. He just started telling me about the
procedure and the condition the patient had (I didn't ask anything). Our
conversation stopped when we reached the locker room since he needed to change
into his surgery outfit. I thanked him and told him my name was Hasan at the
door and left. On July 23rd, I was subbing for another volunteer and
Stacy told me that Dr. Muthiah had agreed to be my mentor. I was pretty shocked
and amazed. I went to JiJi then, and she told me that she had asked him again.
JiJi had told Dr. Muthiah, “The student that wants to mentor under you was that
young man you talked to.” Dr. Muthiah then reconsidered after he found out who
this student was and finally agreed to it. Truly, if God hadn't helped out,
then he wouldn't have reconsidered after seeing me. I realized that having good
character is such a big thing because he changed his mind after seeing my
character from the few minutes that we talked. So it is very crucial and
important to uphold excellent character at all times because many people will
accept you because of it. So as I mentor under him throughout the year, I will
keep this in mind as I want to become a Cardiologist as well. Another example
of why having good character is important is because many of the nurses have
Dr. Muthiah as their favorite cardiologist and Stacy and JiJi also wanted to
ask him first to be my mentor because he had a good character as well. Stacy
was surprised when he originally refused because she said, “Considering his
personality, he doesn't seem like he would say no and he is really nice.”
Applied
5. What is your senior project topic going to be? How did
what you did help you choose a topic? Please explain.
My senior project topic will be Cardiology. By volunteering
in the cath lab, I was able to see a new side of the hospital and how busy it
can get. I have volunteered in multiple departments, but the cath lab was
significantly different (and more hectic) from all of them. I met and saw a few
cardiologists. I also asked the nurses who their favorite cardiologists were so
I could use that to help me get a mentor. At the end of my summer mentorship,
Dr. Muthiah, the youngest cardiologist accepted me as his student. It was a
miracle because he had first refused to be a mentor, but he changed his mind
thank God.
