Pre-Election Thoughts Of A First-Time Voter
It’s embarrassing, and exhilarating, at the same time, to be a first-time voter at the age of 29.
I registered at the place where I’ve been staying for enough time to be considered a resident. And it’s true that the last-minute registrants are still the young ones, plus the few oldies...
Source: Prudence, M.D.
Falling and Crashing
It is as if I’m back in high school, writing those emo entries in my little brown notebook made of 100% recycled paper that serves as an organizer of loose thoughts. It is a thing that is supposedly so protected that it shouldn’t even be in my school bag, in the first place. But then,...
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Finally, Every Four!
Yeah, the title doesn’t make sense for someone who’s not in the medical field. What I actually mean to say is that our 24-hours duty will come every four days, instead of every three.
That doesn’t mean we only come to work every four days. In between those 24-hour duties, we still...
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Slacktime
Mid-morning wakeups are the best.
Currently, I’m enjoying a mid-Sunday morning, waking up at 8:30 a.m., later than my usual 6:00 a.m. waking time. I terribly miss this kind of life, working at a slower pace. Since starting residency, everything has to be fast-paced, because there are terribly...
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Dried Up Creative Juices
One thing’s for sure: Medicine hates flowery language.
Hours and hours of reading Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, writing charts (repeatedly scribbling “conscious, coherent, ambulatory, not in respiratory distress, blah, blah, blah” with slight variations) , and...
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A Second Year Again
It’s about time that I put all my energy in performing my true year-level functions. I’m tired of doing day-long rounds, only to find out at the end that I needed to do it again at night just to make updates. My aging joints just can’t take going up and down the stairs repeatedly...
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A Club Mwah Experience
I live almost nearby the place, but it was only several days ago that I got the chance to see what’s going on inside the Venue tower which houses one of the most fantastic, Vegas-like theater clubs in the country.
I’d have to thank my fellow co-residents for being able to get into Club Mwah....
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My Christmas Gift To Myself
Even atheists such as myself do celebrate Christmas, but not in a way religious people do.
More about atheists and Christmas in the blog posts to come. For now I just want to share how much I love this planner and how it affirms that I’m still very much a Treekiller. Harhar. Smooth texture...
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What Do Doctors Want For Christmas?
I think I can easily answer this question. And the answer is not “world peace”.
Most doctors I know, especially the residents in training, would want to be NOT ON DUTY during Christmas Eve or the day of Christmas itself or on New Year’s eve. And perhaps the deeper reason for wanting...
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