I received the news of the death of one of my best friends today.
I graduated from Okayama University Medical School which has a special teaching system for students. Students were separated into like ten groups and got practical lectures at the bedside of the wards group by group. He and I were members of the same group. We were at the same place almost all the time in the campus. After graduation he chose anaestheology as his major, and I general surgery.
When about eight years had passed after our graduation, he was working at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester in Minnesota. I was eager to see and know how surgery was in the Mayo Clinic, which is famous for its high level medical service. I wanted to compare my skill and that of surgeons of the Mayo Clinic. At that time, he did all the procedures for my joining the surgery team in the Mayo Clinic on my behalf, though I didn't have a surgeon's licence in the U.S. It was a really valuable experience and I could gain more confidence.
I hope that his family will snap out of it as soon as possible. Life goes on and we have to move on.
The picture was taken at a park in Rochester with his family and my colleague's wife.
(Vocabulary)
snap out of sth
1 snap out of it
(悲しみ・落胆などから) 立ち直る, 元気を出す
2 ＜空想など＞から我に返る
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