The day her first child arrived, Sun Kim and her husband were looking at real estate. They wanted to buy a place before the baby was born, and they had toured several homes when she felt the first wave of pain. 

By the time they got to the hospital, her water had broken and the contractions were less than 10 minutes apart.

“A nurse told us the baby was upside-down, so it was an emergency,” she said.

Kim was afraid but also excited to meet her child, whom she was “happily expecting.” And she was comfortable with her “nice and easygoing” OB-GYN, Eddie Feuille Jr., M.D., who performed a cesarean section to deliver the baby, a girl named Faith.

More than 27 years later, Faith Kim is a third-year medical student at KU School of Medicine-Wichita. Last fall, she discovered one of the doctors on her obstetrics rotation was the same OB-GYN who delivered her.

“It was fun because I remember her mother,” Feuille said. He recalls spending extra time with Sun Kim to build trust with the Korean immigrant, whom he remembers as sweet, shy and quiet. A year later, he delivered Sun Kim’s second child, also a girl.

“He’s just as nice as ever,” Faith Kim said. “And he’s a great OB. It was cool to get to learn from him.”

After working with Feuille once, she switched cases with a classmate in order to assist him on a scheduled C-section, her first. She performed some of the suturing, and after the birth she and Feuille posed for an updated photo.

It took Faith Kim some time to get to this place. She chose Kansas State for her undergraduate degree thinking she would go into their veterinary medicine program, but severe allergies derailed those plans.

Her sister, who graduated from KU School of Pharmacy last year, convinced her to go on a medical mission trip to Peru. There, Kim shadowed doctors at local hospitals and traveled to small Amazon villages with the medical team. She even diagnosed her first case of pancreatitis.

She has yet to decide on a specialty, describing herself as “teetering” between several possibilities, including diagnostic radiology and a surgical subspecialty.

“It’s really hard to choose, because I’ve loved a lot of my rotations so far,” she said.

Of course, Feuille hopes she will settle on obstetrics. But regardless, he enjoyed the opportunity to teach the daughter of a former patient.

“We really appreciate it when a student wants to be there and is attentive, and Faith is one of those who is so eager to learn,” he said. “It makes it easy to work with a student like that, but then having the connection through Faith’s mother is really special.”

Sun Kim, a small-business owner and trained pianist who plays for both her church and the Wichita Grand Opera, says she is proud of both her daughters. And her old OB-GYN is waiting for her call.

“I told Faith her mom is really overdue for a yearly check, so she needs to come say hi in person,” he said.

Some 27 years later and all grown up, Faith Kim assisted Eddie Feuille Jr., M.D., with a C-section as part of her obstetrics rotation at KU School of Medicine-Wichita. “To be able to see one of your babies grow up and go to medical school is pretty special,” Feuille said.