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Megan Messinger, DO ’21
Humans’ ability to adapt lets us take over the
planet, for better or worse, beating out our
highly specialized predator brethren and the
furiously fertile lower animals all around us.
The best part is that we can adapt our own
selves — evolution happens to us, from
outside, and on a scale beyond our lifetimes,
but adaptation is active and it is urgent.
“Bear witness,” poet John M. Ford enjoins
us. “Iterate.” Thank you for joining us for
this issue of Humanism in the Health
Sciences as we use another quintessentially
human way of responding to the world —
words — to work out who we are, how we
adapt, and what makes us reach for change.
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Monica Nicole Morris, PharmD ’21
Adapting to current situations means we have
to learn and understand the environment we
are in if we are to endure. As health care
professionals, we must continue to adapt to
be able to effectively serve the communities
we work in. We must adapt to changing
health care needs and be able to understand
cultural differences. I hope to be able to take
this theme with me not only throughout my
remaining years here at WesternU, but also
into my future career.
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Megan Messinger, DO ’21
Humans’ ability to adapt lets us take over the
planet, for better or worse, beating out our
highly specialized predator brethren and the
furiously fertile lower animals all around us.
The best part is that we can adapt our own
selves — evolution happens to us, from
outside, and on a scale beyond our lifetimes,
but adaptation is active and it is urgent.
“Bear witness,” poet John M. Ford enjoins
us. “Iterate.” Thank you for joining us for
this issue of Humanism in the Health
Sciences as we use another quintessentially
human way of responding to the world —
words — to work out who we are, how we
adapt, and what makes us reach for change.
_
Monica Nicole Morris, PharmD ’21
Adapting to current situations means we have
to learn and understand the environment we
are in if we are to endure. As health care
professionals, we must continue to adapt to
be able to effectively serve the communities
we work in. We must adapt to changing
health care needs and be able to understand
cultural differences. I hope to be able to take
this theme with me not only throughout my
remaining years here at WesternU, but also
into my future career.
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