The Best Surgeon In The World...

There's only one person related to medicine that i really admire, his name is Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov, a surgeon that was born in Siberia on March 14, 1934.

During an Antarctic expedition, when he was 27 years old, he developed an acute appendicitis, but he was the only doctor on the expedition, so he had to remove his own appendix. It was an extreme situation, a matter of death or life. I think this situation turns Leonid into an example for every surgeon, because he had to perform an appendectomy on himself! In fact, his surgery is one of the most famous case of self-surgery in the world.

I really admire him because of his determination. It is very useful during the medical practice. In the future, as a doctor, i will face a lot of difficult situations, maybe not so extreme as the previous one, but difficult anyway, and i have to be able to overcam them as Leonid Rogozov did it before.

Earthquake Experience Extended Version

As i said before on my intruduction, i'm from Cauquenes city a place that was very damaged by the earthquake. It was on February 27, i was arriving to my house at arround 3:30 AM and everything started to shake, it was like the "Tagadá" from Fantasilandia. My mother and my little sister were really scared, because a big TV crashed on the floor. My father was very worried about my grandmother, who was living alone in other house in the same city. The seismic movement was really strong, and it last arroud two or three minutes. I was really worried about my friends form Pelluhue and Chanco, luckyly i got news of them very quickly. When the seismisc movement ends, my father went for my grandmother. My mother, my little sister and i, were waiting on the backyard. It was a really bad experience.

Favourite Career-Related Website

Hi again, now i will tell us about my favourite medicine-related website. It is "MedlinePlus", a kind of medical encyclopedia with a lot of information about diseases, injuries, tests, treatments and great pictures that are really easy to understand. I have found this page about four years ago while i was searching information for a biology homework and this site was very useful. I visit "MedlinePlus" at least six times per month, and it is my favourite medicine-related website because of its amazing illustrations and the precision of its disease's descriptions. It is a really cool page, with good information and a nice design, so of course i recommend it to you.

See you next time.

Introduction/Earthquake

Hello! my name is Roberto Arellano, i'm 19 years old and i'm from Cauquenes city a place that was very damaged by the earthquake that struck Chile on February 27. It was a very difficult situation, because a lot of people lost all their properties, but they never lost the hope, so i'm very proud of them. After that i've came to live here, in Santiago city and now i'm studying medicine in second grade. I'm very happy now, because i think i will learn a lot of english in this course, ahh... i think that's all for today, see you on the next class.