King Lear and the Not So Happy Ending
Greg Doran, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, thinks the Bubonic plague helped shape William Shakespeare’ writing. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/13/a-happy-ending-for-king-lear-trauma-of-plague-caused-shakespeare-to-change-plays-finale We studied King Lear sometime in college. Yes I found it depressing. Interesting that the source play (that Shakespeare based his King Lear on) had a happy ending, but he was so traumatized by all the […]
COVID-19: What Australia Did Right
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/by-trusting-in-their-scientists-australia-is-down-to-zero-new-covid-19-cases The government listened to scientists and physicians. They put partisan politics and ideology aside. Politicians on the national government level had consistent and clear messaging that “it’s a crisis, we will have trials, but we’re all in this together and we have to work together as a nation”. People complied (except maybe for the […]
Five Years
Dear Journal Subscribers, I was cleaning out my e-mail files and found the following essay, which I had written sometime in March [1999] I think it serves as a fitting postscript to the journal – “closure”, as they would say. For the past five years of medical school I’ve walked to morning mass at the […]
The Last Issue
May 6, 1999 Thursday Dear On-Line Journal of Internship Subscribers, HELLO EVERYBODY!!! I had meant to send you an earlier journal issue (sometime during the last week of April) but unfortunately our computer monitor decided it was overworked and short-circuited. Mom put a sign on the computer: “Computer out of order, do not use.” And […]
Pediatrics and Community Medicine: 19 Days to Go
April 1, 1999 Sunday Dear On-Line Journal of Internship Subscribers, Hi everybody! Long time no write. Because there’s nothing much to write about 😀 and the server was down for a week sometime in the beginning of April. My last issue was 30 days ago and about the Pediatrics Emergency Room. Since then, I’ve gone […]
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 […]
