I'm a Goalie Thanks to Sports Central

Sports Central, a charity that provides sports equipment at no cost to kids in need, asked me to help with a video a few weeks ago, and of course I made time for them. I'm a goalie because of them.

When I was 11 years old, they provided me with equipment to attend a goalie camp. That was the first time I was on the ice in full gear!

The instructors were super generous to me, a very clear newbie, throughout the goalie camp.

My parents immigrated from Vietnam and eventually ended up in Edmonton, and the focus in the house was on doing well in school. There wasn't time - or money - for hockey.

While playing hockey was one thing, the more significant matter was that my friends and classmates liked hockey. I knew very little about it. Yet Curtis Joseph, the goaltender for the Edmonton Oilers at the time, electrified the city with his play, and eventually I started to follow my hometown team. I wanted to be a goalie because of him!

My brothers and me with Edmonton Oilers goaltender Curtis Joseph at the Carnival of Champions.

The sports camp launched me into a lifelong interest in hockey, goaltending, and even more specifically, goalie gear. I designed custom graphics for my equipment. I made trips to visit equipment manufacturers. I brought my gear with me wherever I lived in Canada because there would always be a team that needed a goalie.

I made friends with a Saturday night hockey group through this bulletin board posting and played with them throughout my residency in Moncton, NB.

So when I returned home to Edmonton, I reconnected with Sports Central to let them know how much they mean to me. Since then, I've been happy to share my story and my lived experience: that participating in sports with the people around you builds connection and community.

Father Michael Troy School raised funds for Sports Central through Hockey Helps Kids in 2017.

You can help Sports Central by providing gently-used sports equipment and/or funds so children who want to play, but can’t afford the equipment, are given the gear they need to participate: Donate to Sports Central.

RELATED LINKS

• Sport Central's Community Impact (Kerry Diotte, July 17, 2020)

• Hometown Hockey: Sport Central giving children in need a chance to play (Sportsnet, July 5, 2017)

• This week’s Vitals: He shoots, he saves (University of Alberta FoMD, Feb 1, 2017)

• Team Nugent-Hopkins Wins 2nd Annual Charity Cup Challenge (Feb 22, 2017)

• Team Nugent-Hopkins - Father Michael Troy School (YouTube, Jan 18, 2017)

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Medical Vietnamese Resources | Clinical Pearls

With a lot help from my friends and a few helpful suggestions, I found these resources to help me learn medical Vietnamese. #medicalvietnamese

Books on Amazon

• Communication in English for Vietnamese Health Professionals: Giao Tiếp bằng Tiếng Anh trong Ngành Y (2016)

  • Author: Dinh Van Nguyen

• Essential 18000 English-Vietnamese Medical Words Dictionary (2015)

  • Author: Nam Nguyen

Books on Vietnamese sites

• Sổ tay luyện dịch tài liệu Y khoa (2015)

  • Author: Tuyết Minh

  • Viet-English medical phrases and terms, side by side and beneath each other, 470 pages.

• Cẩm Nang Người Dịch Tiếng Anh Y Khoa (2010)

  • Author: Nhiều Tác Giả (multiple authors)

  • English and Vietnamese, side by side, 463 pages.

• Tiếng Anh dành cho giới Bác sĩ & Y Tá (2008)

  • "Practical English for Medical Personnel"

  • English and Vietnamese, side by side, 252 pages.

  • Author: Nguyễn Trung Tánh

• Tiếng Anh Trong Y Khoa (tái bản lần 2) (2007)

  • "English In Medicine (Second Edition)"

  • Author: Eric H. Glendinning, Beverly A.S. Holmstrom, GS. BS. Trần Phương Hạnh

  • English and Vietnamese, side by side, 352 pages.

• Sách Atlas giải phẫu người, Frank H. Netter bản tiếng Việt (2007)

  • "Atlas of Human Anatomy, 5th Edition"

  • Author: multiple

  • Anatomy with Vietnamese labels, 553 pages.

• Chú giải thuật ngữ Y học Anh Việt (2005)

  • "English-Vietnamese Glossary of Medical Terms in Common Usage"

  • Author: multiple?

  • Giant glossary, English term with Vietnamese definitions, 222 pages.

Patient resources/handouts

• Health Information Translations (Ohio State, USA)

  • English and Vietnamese side by side in each document!

• Health Translations Directory (Victorian Government of Australia, AUS)

  • Links to separate English and Vietnamese documents.

• Health Booklets (Vietnamese Mental Health Services, GBR)

  • Vietnamese only.

YouTube channels with medical content

• Dr. Wynn Tran Official (2019-present)

  • Dr. Wynn Tran teaches medical topics in Vietnamese and in English. Vietnamese and English speaker, no subtitles.

• Osmosis Vietnamese (2017-present)

  • A channel that features short-ish medical topics with Vietnamese voice-overs. Vietnamese speaker, English graphics.

• VietMD.net (2014-2018)

  • Dr. Wynn Tran teaches medical topics in Vietnamese and in English. Vietnamese and English speaker, no subtitles.

• Tina Huynh (2012)

  • Tina Huynh made six videos of physician-patient encounters. Vietnamese speaker, no subtitles.

• Dr. Chris Le's Medical Vietnamese Playlist (2020)

  • I created a playlist with the videos below.

• Study English with Us! (2019)

  • This video has helpful phrases for calling to make a doctor's appointment. High production value! Vietnamese and English speaker, English and Vietnamese text graphics. 50.7k views.

• DẠY & HỌC TIẾNG ANH (2019)

  • This video features phrases for going to the doctor. Vietnamese and English speaker, English and Vietnamese text graphics. 2.7k views.

• TIẾNG ANH ĐƠN GIẢN (2019)

  • This video features 27 phrases "to have in your pocket" when going for a doctor's appointment. There are puppets! Vietnamese and English speaker, English and Vietnamese text graphics. 7.7k views.

• Cung hoc tieng Anh (2018)

  • This video features 35 useful phrases for doctor's appointments. Slick graphics! Vietnamese and English speaker, English and Vietnamese text graphics. 158.8k views.

• Học Tiếng Anh Langmaster (2018)

  • This video features vocabulary about hospitals. English speaker, Vietnamese subtitles. 33.7k views.

• Học Tiếng Anh Langmaster (2018)

  • This video features medical vocabulary. English speaker, Vietnamese subtitles. 9.0k views.

• Tung Thanh Ly Vietnam (2017)

  • This video features medical conversations in Vietnamese. Vietnamese speaker, English and Vietnamese text graphics. 4.2k views.

• Học Tiếng Anh Langmaster (2016)

  • This video features 32 useful phrases at the hospital. English speaker, Vietnamese subtitles. 87.7k views.

• Học Tiếng Anh Langmaster (2016)

  • This video features vocabulary about common diseases. English speaker, Vietnamese subtitles. 29.9k views.

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"Self-Control Is Just Empathy With Your Future Self" │ Reflections

Name: Self-Control Is Just Empathy With Your Future Self

Author(s): Ed Yong

Medium: #articles

Release Date: December 6, 2016

Source: The Atlantic (Pocket)

Empathy depends on your ability to overcome your own perspective, appreciate someone else’s, and step into their shoes. Self-control is essentially the same skill, except that those other shoes belong to your future self—a removed and hypothetical entity who might as well be a different person. So think of self-control as a kind of temporal selflessness. It’s Present You taking a hit to help out Future You.

One of my work and life principles is "having empathy for your future self", and I believe that I got it from this article. Doing some of the hard work now helps "Future Me" receive a benefit.

This applies at work where I do what I can in front of me, and then I'll make reminders with specific instructions set at a future date. This process helps keep my paper work under control so everything gets handled at the right time. And when I receive a reminder, "Past Me" has told me what needs to happen next and I deal with the issue at hand.