Author: Jennifer Yang
Pediatrics: The Nursery
March 2, 1999 Tuesday Nursery rotation is divided into two: the delivery room duty and the nursery (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, as it is technically called). Delivery room duty is 24 hours, in which one does not see the light of day. The intern is just cooped up in the small “transition nursery” near the […]
Pediatrics: Wards and All
March 6, 1999 Saturday Dear everyone, This is the long-overdue journal issue on my 2-week stay in the Pediatrics wards. I’m so glad it’s only 2 weeks. In the past years, the ward rotation was 3 weeks You see, a new curriculum was implemented for our class, which is why the ward rotation (and Pediatrics […]
Pediatrics: The Emergency Room
March 13, 1999 Saturday Hello everyone, and welcome to the journal issue about the Pediatric Emergency Room. It used to be called the PAS, or Pediatric Admitting Section. But since the Department or Emergency Medical Services (DEMS) changed the whole ER (emergency room) set-up, it’s now called the Pediatric Emergency Room. Not much difference besides […]
Ophthalmology (I’ve Got My Eyes on You?)
February 7, 1999 Sunday Dear On-Line Journal of Internship Subscribers, Hi! This is the entry for Ophthalmology, which I don’t particularly like. Eyesight is important for most activities of daily living, and it is amazing how super-specialized eye doctors are, but it’s so… small. All that attention to a small part of the body. Besides, […]
An ENT Postscript
January 23, 1999 Saturday This is a postscript to the Ear-Nose-Throat blog entry. P.S.: Jan. 22 was the sort of our informal countdown for the end of internship, as it was “’99 days for class ‘99″. I made computer-generated stickers and posters for the occasion, and have been wondering if I could do this for […]
Ear-Nose-Throat (ENT, or Otorhinolaryngology)
January 23, 1999 Saturday Hi all I This journal deals with natural holes in the head, as opposed to those created by surgeons. I just finished a 2-week rotation in ENT (ear-nose-throat), formally known as otorhinolaryngology – wonder why the specialty is not called ORL? ENT used to be EENT (eye-ear-nose-throat) until some people decided […]
Surgery: Code White, Part 2
January 6, 1999 Wednesday As I mentioned in part 1, the Departments of Surgery, Orthopedics and Anesthesia were on Code White last December 31-January 1. All residents and interns in these departments were on duty, no exceptions. Roll calls were done every 8 hours to check if we were still around (and still alive). Actually, […]
Surgery: Trauma Team, and Code White, Part 1
January 5, 1999 Wednesday Hello all and happy 1999! This is quite a belated greeting as I spent New Year’s Eve on duty and New Year’s Day trying to get enough ZZZZs to pay my sleep debt. But I’m getting ahead of my story. For the week of December 25 to 31, I was with […]
Finally Out of Surgery Wards
December 26, 1998 Saturday Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year! I had my last duty as a Surgery ward intern on Christmas Eve. No more PACU monitoring, at least for now! (PACU – post-anesthesia care unit; monitoring – checking vital signs). The best times of the past rotation at the surgery wards was when I got pulled out of duty to go Christmas caroling… wait a […]
Of Antacids and the Crazy Year of 2020
The article may be behind a paywall, but it offers commentary for the mental health issues as a secondary effect of the pandemic. TL, DR: There’s an increase in stomach acid when your body is stressed. The increase in stomach acid causes heartburn and reflux symptoms. A spike in heartburn and reflux cases at doctors’ […]
