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Another Day at the Orifice: February 2010

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Another Day at the Orifice. Monday, February 8, 2010. Pump Class in the OT. After moonlighting in the ICU for a couple of weeks, it's time to go back to the refridgerator otherwise known as operating theatres for a bit of anaesthetic exposure. That adds another surprising impression (and respect) of the quiet anaesthetist in the background. Explains the massive biceps (twice that of mine) of the bosses, and my physical inadequacy to fill the shoes required for training. My arms still ache at the memory.

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Another Day at the Orifice: October 2010

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Another Day at the Orifice. Friday, October 15, 2010. I've been using this word to describe my life at the moment. I like the picture that conjures up in my mind of coloured dyes mixing in a liquid medium, or watching the continuous fragrant wisp of smoke that rises from a burning incense stick. Suddenly glimpsing the state of molecules as they really are - moving, twisting, dancing to an invisible momentum. Voices talk over each other in my head: "I need to know! But why do you need to know? My seniors ...

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Another Day at the Orifice: June 2010

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Another Day at the Orifice. Thursday, June 24, 2010. Back at the Orifice. This is it. The time I've been simultaneously dreading and anticipating - I'm back at the emergency department, orifice of the hospital. In the Realm of Hysteria VI. I find it perplexing, and a shift away from the usual self-absorbed anxiety during internship. Somehow, my perspective has changed. I start to be asked by unfamiliar nursing staff if I were the registrar (specialty trainee), receive friendly greetings from cons...The w...

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Another Day at the Orifice: Flux

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Another Day at the Orifice. Friday, October 15, 2010. I've been using this word to describe my life at the moment. I like the picture that conjures up in my mind of coloured dyes mixing in a liquid medium, or watching the continuous fragrant wisp of smoke that rises from a burning incense stick. Suddenly glimpsing the state of molecules as they really are - moving, twisting, dancing to an invisible momentum. Voices talk over each other in my head: "I need to know! But why do you need to know? My seniors ...

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Another Day at the Orifice: January 2010

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Another Day at the Orifice. Friday, January 22, 2010. First Encounter with Death. Is it taboo to talk about death and dying? Nobody seems to take an interest. You could almost hear the unspoke thoughts in the silence: 'He's fading' 'We can't offer anything else' 'It is awful, watching someone (die on us)'. It is awful, indeed. They nearly always look like this,' my mentor said, in his usual detached tone, so that his emotions were not betrayed. 'Do you know what to look for? He asked. I gave him an a...

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Pashan: Santiaoling Waterfall Trail (三貂嶺)

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Hiking the Mountains, Valleys, Rivers and Jungles of Taiwan. Friday, May 15, 2009. Santiaoling Waterfall Trail (三貂嶺). The pic above says it all: fun. This trail that runs along the upper valley of the Keelung River, the main river flowing through Taipei, is as fun-in-the-sun as a day at a waterpark - and with its half dozen falls, not that dissimilar. We had a good sized group with us, eight when we stepped off the train. Within a few minutes another train dropped off our old friend Trail-hacker....Five ...

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Another Day at the Orifice: May 2010

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Another Day at the Orifice. Saturday, May 22, 2010. In the Realm of Hysteria V. So it seems, I've almost made it to the end of ten weeks. And grown a new skin in tolerating blood and gore. "You haven't seen bleeding until you've seen obstetric bleeding" a young aspiring O&G doc shares her insight after being in the thick of it for almost a year. The midwife and I examine the placenta, its heavy heady smell of blood, a meaty plate of solid tissue, not unlike the surface of a cauliflower, the thin transluc...

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Another Day at the Orifice: April 2010

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Another Day at the Orifice. Tuesday, April 13, 2010. In the Realm of Hysteria IV. After surviving a mind-numbing weekend full of post-delivery "mum checks" - those repeated enquiries about bowels movements, pain, bleeding and contraceptive choice - it was with a sigh of relief that I returned to an afterhours floating shift following the directions of a more senior doc in confronting what comes through the door in any moment. They almost always throw up.". Somehow, the baby's head was stuck and not witho...

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melbourne gastronome: Market Lane: excellent specialty coffee at Prahran Market

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Saturday, 21 November 2009. Market Lane: excellent specialty coffee at Prahran Market. Shop 13, Prahran Market. 163 Commercial Road, entrance on Elizabeth St ( map. Open Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays,. Saturdays 7-5, Sundays 10-2. My, isn't Melbourne getting a lot of specialty coffee houses? Melbourne fans of the so-called third-wave coffee movement. First wave = post-WWII, second wave = Lavazza/Vittoria) really are spoiled for choice, with excellent specialty coffee available at Auction Rooms. Rest assur...