The Freudian Slip Of A Bacolodnon

To my fellow batchmates...and friends...I invite you to visit my high school batch's website at usls98.com . A collaboration of our batchmates based in Bacolod and in the U.S. Kudos to justin and joem for a job well done!

These crazy stuff that happen to us are those that keep our lives fun and happy. They complicate life sometimes and most often we do not want them to happen at all. But I am glad for these simple eccentricities of life. They are the things that keep me human. I was always asked why I am so "benign" whenever I go on duty at the hospital. If only they knew how far from being "benign" my life is. I got married early in life, with almost zero income to provide for my pregnant wife and 4-year old kid. I am about to take the boards with no sure guarantee of passing them and even if I do, there is also no sure warranty that I may succeed in my profession. I go crazy every day looking for dough so I could at least provide something for my young family. I go more than crazy whenever I swallow my pride and ask dough from my parents. I am 26, married and still dependent. I am an official handicap. But I look at life with a positive outlook. I face the buffets of reality with a...

The hardest part of my job as a post-graduate intern is to apprise the folks about their patient's condition. I admitted a patient during my last duty who was brought in at the E.R. unconscious and unresponsive. Allegedly, patient had history of trauma while admitted at the referring hospital. Since that time, she was no longer responsive to any stimuli. At the E.R. I saw her without spontaneous eye opening, no response to pain and no verbal response. After a quick assessment, I entubated her and referred her immediately to my JC. A Stat CT Scan of the Cranium revealed a massive intracranial bleed. The neurologist said it was probably an aneurysmal bleed and subarachnoid hemorrage. Prognosis was very poor. The folks were apprised and were advised to sign the DNR form. At first the sister did sign the DNR form but 8 hours later, she decided to take back the DNR instructions and wanted us to do everything to "lengthen" the life of her sister. It seems she still didn't w...

So I heard this latest contest being pushed by the Steven Spielberg himself along with the Mark Burnett. All the details are on Star TV On The Lot site but basically it's a film making contest. When I heard about it, I immediately had a story in mind so I told Gesper about it the next day and he too is quite game about it. I am currently doing the storyboard and so far I have made tentative plans of doing the actual shooting by next week. With Gesper as a co-editor/co-director, maybe, well just maybe, we can get to join the semi-finals or whatever. But whether or not we get to make it in the actual contest or even win the 1,000,000 US dollars, the fact that a Steven Spielberg and a Mark Burnett can get to see your work in person is already thrilling enough. I don't want to spill the story but it will only take about 5 minutes and with very low budget. So far, I am still looking for actors to play but basically most of the actors that I will be needing are already right here ...

In BOLMSH, I officially belong to an unofficial elite circle of interns who share the same 24-hour duty schedules. We call ourselves the magic four for lack of anything to call ourselves. At present, the magic four are: me, gesper, ken and marc. Who are these people? No, they are not superheroes although they do possess some extraordinary skills. Neither are they dieties for they bleed like any human being does. Gesper is a certified pharmacist and graduated from the University of San Agustin. Gesper took his medicine proper in the College of Medicine USLS and along with Marc and me, graduated as one of the pioneers of the said college. Currently, Gesp is still single and this is not by choice. He has a bipolar personality and actually a very complicated person. But life is never that simple for anyone, isn't it? A very talented artist, he can draw, dance, web design and most of all sing. There was one time when we tried to push him to audtion for Pinoy Dream Academy but being the ...

You can't do anything about it. Since J.I. days, the Department of Internal Medicine is always the most toxic department ever. Compared to other departments, the I.M. has the most number of daily admissions, the most frequent ward calls and the most number of morbi patients. During my first 24-hours duty, I had a total of 16 admissions, 3 of which were early morning admissions. How early? Way too early. And I was paired with a usually "benign" junior consultant whose usual quota is only 8-10 admissions. My second duty was somewhat lessened quite a bit with only 10 admissions. And thankfully I was able to have a quick nap during that time as well. My third duty was also quite okay with this time a total of 8 admissions but the ward calls were unstoppable and I had to sleep with the phone literally as my pillow. The previous duty was a little toxic. I had 15 admissions. Thankfully though the ward calls were then a little less and we didn't have to do those scary CPRs or...

Now that the internet connections are up and about, it is time to make a more decent post and for this 2007, let me tell you what happened to me during the last few days of 2006. The last few days of 2006 were almost memorable. They were ordinary days but nevertheless, it was spent more than just ordinarily. On December 30, 2006, I was doing floater-duty for OB-GYNE. I was the last intern to do a floater's job for 2006 and hopefully the last intern to do such for the rest of BOLMSH's history of internship. Thankfully, it was a very benign night duty. I had one patient waiting at the labor room but it was a premature rupture of membrane (29 weeker) so we had to do tocolysis on her to prevent premature labor. Most of my time therefore was spent at the On-call Room together with our in-house interns (whose quarters down at the basement are still recuperating from the flash floods last December 20) and the rest of the interns on duty. Those who were from Iloilo went home except for...

It took me forever to log in to this blog. After the Taiwan quakes, it seems the internet connnection have been bugging me like pigs possessed by demons. I can't post pictures and even make a decent post. Anyway, I am in I.M. now so I do hope I get to find more time for this blog. Promise I will be fixing this blog entry as soon as everything gets normalized. For the mean time, welcome 2007! Men are no longer dogs...we are pigs!