Dr. J's SOAP Notes

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Hello Bloggers! You mustn't worry yourselves that my blog has not been updated for 9 months. In fact, my website has not been updated for 11 months. Here's to a new start. I have a friend working on my website and it looks to be up in the next 6 months. We must not rush her as this could ruffle some feathers. She once told me she does not like deadlines. Amazing, but I heard she still has her job!! Ha!

I have some new friends.......or so my facebook says! It is amazing how many people get on that site. Michael Phelps even asked to be my friend. I have that effect on a lot of people! Of course, I clicked YES! I can't leave the olympian hangin'.

My summer has gone by lickity split. I went on a mission trip to Uganda June 14-28 with ChildVoice International (www.childvoiceintl.org). This was some serious fly time, but it was so worth it. Yea, it changed my life. Of course it did. Just try it sometime........go to a third world country and see if you don't come back a changed person. I will have pics posted on my website (www.maleajensen.com).

In case you have not heard, Michigan plays Utah the first game of the year next weekend. Yay, for college football and the Michigan Wolverines!!!

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AnonymousFriday, August 22, 2008 10:06:00 AM
I'm workin' on it every day, Dr. J! She's going to look amazing--stand by and we'll let you know when we're up and running! (and it WILL be before Christmas :P)
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Who is Dr. J

Background:

She is originally from Spencer, Iowa. Malea is a graduate of Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. She attended medical school at the University of Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines, Iowa. She graduated from her Family Practice Residency program at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa in 1998.
In her spare time, Malea trains clients on physical activity and nutrition, spends time with friends and her wonderful father, and loves to watch football. What is better than bodybuilding? “Wolverine football on Saturday and Vikings football on Sunday!” Malea also loves basketball as March Madness rounds out a wonderful basketball season. As you may have guessed, Malea is very sports oriented, having been a four-sport athlete in high school, and a three-sport athlete in college.

Why I do what I do:

Jensen approaches her medical practice with the same determination as anything else she does. “The effort to understand how to promote more active lifestyles has been of great importance to the health of this nation. Schools, workplaces, and families need to weave physical activity into the fabric of their daily lives. The key to lifetime fitness is consistency!”

What I Do Away From Work

Dr. Malea Jensen is the total package. She’s exceptionally bright. She’s remarkably attractive. She’s a doctor. She’s a bodybuilder. “I have been competing in bodybuilding since 1996,” Jensen explains. “Bodybuilding was never a whim”, Jensen says. “I have always admired men and women with muscle. Initially, it was not my ambition to get up on stage and pose, but this has been a way to extend my competitiveness. It is an ambition of mine to keep fit and look lean, with muscular detail.”

She credits her father for pushing her to “give 100 percent,” whether it was school, work, or one of the many sports at which she excelled.

Mission Trips

Why does Dr. J go on mission trips? You are probably thinking I go so I can do medical work. It’s funny, our culture has formed us from our earliest days to see our significance in terms of WHAT we do. It is old school thinking that mission work is all about giving and doing for the poor. This is true to a certain degree. Missionaries, when asked if they were successful during their mission trip, often speak of their success by what they have done, whether spiritually or materially. But really our significance as people comes not from what we do, but from WHO we are. So, to answer why I go on mission trips...it is for nothing less than for the sake of conversion...my own conversion! This conversion has to do with a change in the way that I view my own life - what I do, what I have, who I count as friends, what questions I ask myself, what issues I pay attention to, who and what I give my allegiance to. In essence, I have to leave my world where I have control and go someplace I have never been...to a place where I am poor and powerless. It is hard to do this at “home.”
Any time you enter a third world country, you will see the poor, but more importantly, you enter into the world of a deprived people and share not only their pain and struggle, but also their hope! To see this is so amazing!