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Scrubbed Out: November 2012
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Thursday, November 8, 2012. For all the daughters in the world. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). An adventure called life. Are patient “proxy measures” helpful in assessing the quality of care rendered by a healthcare professional? A Mile A Minute. The Tipster's Road to Financial Freedom: Simple Ways to Save Money (1st of 3 Parts). Memoirs of a Domesticated MD. You know, like Che Guevara. Ripples from the River of My Thoughts. What the doctor needs to know. 115 Manila Restaurants We Love. When Things Go Wrong.
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Scrubbed Out: May 2014
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Saturday, May 31, 2014. Residency Survival Guide 101: New Advice for the New Resident. Being in fellowship training has allowed me to see how residency training has evolved over the last few years. It has conformed to society's latest fads and the newer graduates of medical school. This is an ever evolving guide to surviving residency training, in this day and age. 1 Be responsible using social media. So if you are a resident or planning to go into training, please think before you post. 4 Know your place.
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Scrubbed Out: August 2013
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Saturday, August 31, 2013. There is this moment every night when every well-meaning parent looks in on their child sleeping soundly and whisper a short prayer of thanks or a well-meaning thought or hum a favorite lullaby, gently stroke the hair on their heads and kiss them goodnight. Then come the prayer to Him who granted us this chance to be parents in the first place. That He watch over this little angel sleeping peacefully, so innocent, so full of hope and promise and as vibrant as all the little...
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Scrubbed Out: Deaths That Matter
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Monday, September 21, 2009. There were a couple of deaths that mattered this past two weeks - well, it probably did not matter to the rest of the world who did not know them but, they were intertwined and I was right in the middle of it. Last week, on one fateful day, their paths crossed. Yes doc, it's ok. I feel fine at the moment. Maybe if, God forbid, I have problems, I'd like to ask the same favor from the other patients." she calmly said. What made matters worse, was that Mrs R's BP fell. Her vi...
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Scrubbed Out: Love Goes On
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Thursday, November 28, 2013. I received a phone call a few days back from a dear friend telling me her father was coming in for admission. He had been having exertional dyspnea (difficulty breathing on exertion) and a bothersome cough that got worse once he was lying down. I said I'd take care of him while she was still finishing up a few things as she was completing her residency training in my hometown. Then came the call. I could hear my friend in the background, screaming. Everything was so sudden, a...
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Scrubbed Out: December 2012
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Sunday, December 16, 2012. It's been a while. This December has been unlike any other in all the years I've been fortunate to celebrate the Yuletide season. First, the apocalypse is reportedly near. The Mayan Calendar pegged it on December 21 of this year and that is 6 days from now. Nostradamus has this prediction involving a calm morning, a dancing horse, and a couple of circles that insanely sounds like the beginning of a bad joke but at the same insane time, eerily comes together. An adventure called...
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Scrubbed Out: Nerdification
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Sunday, November 27, 2011. I started watching downloaded episodes of The Big Bang Theory on my laptop a few months ago and it didn't take me long to realize, I had so much in common with these guys. The realization that I was a nerd. But what makes a nerd? Is it just wanting to be Lion-o of the Thundercats or be a member of the Silverhawks, or knowing that Patrick Stewart was Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation (a series which I absolutely adored? Wanting to be MacGyver? But I had more than...
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Scrubbed Out: Kinda Carpe Diem
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Friday, August 29, 2014. It is getting harder and harder to find time to write in fellowship. In between reading thick textbooks and making reports and presentations, I barely have time for a good night's sleep or watching all the movies I've downloaded over the past year. And once my daughter comes into our room and runs into my arms, all the time for NBA 2K14 and TV, happily goes out the window. It is a tough, tough schedule to keep. Maybe I'm not too left out, after all. I've done a couple of stuff in...
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Scrubbed Out: July 2013
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Ah, prose, how I've missed you. It's been a while since I've written anything of note that wasn't an introduction to a research paper I'm supposed to continue, a meta-analysis that will have to be finished by the end of the month, the gazillions of reports on basic cardiology, arrhythmias, vascular lesions and echocardiograms. Second, I have graduated from being a resident, to dealing with residents. And every single day, I ask myself, "Was I this hopeless when I started out?
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Scrubbed Out: April 2014
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Friday, April 4, 2014. These past few days to weeks to months, I've felt a little bit more stressed than what I've been used to. And for someone well into the his second year of Adult Cardiology fellowship, that is going to be a little bit understated. But that's beside the point. She was in severe heart failure. To what, I couldn't really say for certain unless I did some more tests. I couldn't subject her to valve replacement surgery because sending her to the procedure would be sending her to ...Today...
