The Freudian Slip Of A Bacolodnon

It has been a long weekend, perhaps the most toxic weekend we ever had at OB-GNE Department. Three double table events, plus a truck-load of C-sections, most of which are stat ORs. Need I mention the ample DDRs we had? (Direct to Delivery Room)My Tuesday duty was really the worse. I was up all 24 hours without sleep. During that day I had to deliver at least 20 cases, mixed types: from NSDs (Normal Spontaneous Deliveries) to C-Sections. Other than the usual deliveries, we were also mobbed by vaginal bleedings due to incomplete abortions and the like. So, I also had to go assist on our D&Cs (Dilatation and curettage). It started with Melvin's Monday duty, when all Labor Room Beds were occupied by laboring pregnant women. Other than those in waiting, a rush of direct-to-DR patients was brought to the DR. What made it so exciting was the Nursery is undergoing some needed renovations all babies were placed in DR2, which means, only one Delivery Room is functioning as of the moment....

The morning started with a face-to-face encounter with a female perineum. I assisted in an AP repair procedure with posterior colporraphy early this morning, my first one since I rotated in OB-GYNE. After the surgery, all PGIs attended a Lecture on Updates on the Management of Status Epilepticus given by our very own chairman Dr. Wilson Tulmo. The lecture was great. The food...greater! Sponsored by Pfizer, it was sort of like a heavy brunch. Food Trip Catering services did the catering and it was nice. 5 types of viands, including one whole lechon being slaughtered into chunks right before our very eyes. I loved the chocolate fountain which was the centerpiece of the dessert table. It was a feast really, both gastronomically and educationally. The pigging out did not end there. After lunch time, all PGIs attended another Case Presentation by the Department of Surgery. This time VerracoPharma sponsored the presentation and we had Jollibee packs for snacks. The discussion was given by Be...

It has been a week. A lot has happened since last week. 2 days of convention. 5 days of work. The life of an OB-GYNE PGI can be slow paced at times but a PGI in general never has a boring life. If I were to write a screenplay, I would have 13 people to gather inspiration from. Imagine 14 different kinds of people, coming from 14 different backgrounds, each with his/her own different personality, all gathered in one hospital, most of whom residing in one dorm, sharing one on-call room. There will always be tensions each brought about by the inherent diversity of the group. And there will always be fun too. But whether tensions or not, the life of a PGI especially in BOLMSH is never boring. It is expected that in dealing with tensions brought about by our differences, it is important to include good two-way open communication among individuals. Once two people stop talking, nothing makes sense. Everything is prone to misunderstanding. Humans are never born psychics and it is a big mistak...

Sunday mornings are a bit dragging don't you think? Especially when you are On Call Status. You come in at 7:30 a.m., do your morning rounds, finish your daily progress notes and if you are lucky attend to an OR procedure, then you have your late- breakfast-early-lunch meal and wait inside your OnCall Room for ward calls or referrals. At around 11:30 a.m., you go to your fellow PGI On Duty to endorse all of your ward patients then you pack up for home. Sundays can be slow but it's the kind of "slow" I need. The rest of the week is always a rush. Sundays are the only days in the week when you are told to slow down and take a breather. It is during Sunday mornings when you get to have breakfast with your fave junior consultants, or enjoy a trivial conversation with the nurses, or do brief and light visits with your patients in their rooms. Even the "toxic" patients can't help but smile on Sunday mornings. Blessed is the God who Made Sundays. And to everyon...

It is the fifth month of my PGIship. Time runs fast. So much has happened. So little time to write about them. Too little energy to type them all up here. So, instead, i will just be posting them a la bulletin board: 1. IFCA - PHILIPPINES: an international group of Filipino artists, based in France, has invited me to be one of their collaborators for an international magazine which they will be printing out sometime within this year. They have invited me to take charge of the write-ups for every visual art they will be featuring or showcasing in their mag. And, one of their major projects is to come up with a directory of filipino artists around the world. I have just been enlisted in this directory. :-) 2. Post graduate course - sponsored by Riverside Medical Center, this coming Sept 15-16, 2006 at L'fisher Hotel. 3. Still benign with OB 4. Happy Birthday TinTin Castronuevo! 5. Belated Happy Birthday to Rwa Altalaguire and Coleen Teodosio, former high school batchmates. 6. Happy U...

I was approached by a JI this morning to ask me about "what happened" with me regarding "a fight" I had with a "surgeon". After much clarifications, I soon found out the JI was talking about the controversial blog (it was actually more of the controversial 'anonymous' comments in that blog entry)I wrote a few days back. This JI told me that another JI told him/her that Dr. Guancia, the diety himself, the All-Powerful head of the Department that (s)cares (Internal Medicine), told them about me having been in a fight with a surgeon over something I wrote. Of course I laughed in the sense that rumors do get distorted in some way along the handing down process. From the way I was getting it from others, I was the one who started the fight with this "surgeon". Let's make some clarifications first. Number one: I never had a fight with a surgeon, whether it would be in real life or in this blog. Number two: the guy who wrote those comments i...

A long silence...then... ... blog.... I'm back to the blogging business. So what has happened so far? Here are my top five moments of the week! 1. The future is in my hands! - more specifically, in between my index and middle finger and somewhere near the vicinity of my thumb. I am now an OB-GYNE intern and my favourite scent is lochia. I infact just came off from a 24 hour duty shift and so far I only ahd 3 admissions, compared to Melvin's 9! It seems I am continuing my benign streak even here in this department. 2. Leaving the Nursery - no longer a Pedia PGI, I can't help but missing the people who have been close to me for the past two months while in my Pedia rotation. Thank you to the doctors and nurses who have been more than just mentors. 3. Driving Lessons - I am on my 3rd day as a student driver and I am pretty much doing well. My instructor, Jumar, the ever patient, has only words of encouragement for me. I have "potentials" he says and I look forward to...