Category: JOINT: Journal of INTernship
JOINT: Journal of INTernship (1998-1999)
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 […]
Surgery: Emergency Room and Outpatient Department
November 28, 1998 Saturday This is the journal for the first two weeks of Surgery. Surgery is gory and bloody and everything you’ve imagined – the most prevalent color here is blood-red. The Surgery-ER/OPD (Emergency Room/Outpatient Department) rotation consists of the first 2 weeks of Surgery (8 weeks). Interns are on duty at the ER […]
Family Medicine (or: Waking Up from a Bad Dream)
November 14, 1998 Saturday Welcome to the Journal. Sorry about the lengthiness of last issue (4 parts). 10-weeks’ worth of experiences had to be written – catharsis? Anyway, I’ve just finished a 2-week rotation in Family Medicine. People say that the Family Medicine rotation is just like waking up from a bad dream (Internal Med […]
Internal (Eternal) Medicine: Part 4 of 4
November 7, 1998 Saturday Finally, the last two weeks of Internal Medicine! The last two weeks in which I am supposed to study for the oral exams (you open your mouth and doctors look in for cavities ;-D) The “orals” are held on the 3rd to the last day of the 10-week Internal Med rotation. […]
Internal (Eternal) Medicine: Part 3 of 4
November 7, 1998 Saturday This is part 3 of Eternal Medicine, the emergency room. It is nothing like the clean, orderly emergency room on TV’s E.R., but it can be as fast-paced. After 4 weeks in the wards, our block moved on to the AMMU for 2 weeks. AMMU stands for Adult Major Medical Unit, […]
Internal (Eternal) Medicine: Part 2 of 4
November 7, 1998 Saturday This is part 2 of the 10-week epic called Eternal (Internal) Medicine. Please send me a note if you did not receive part 1, as I (stupidly) forget to note down which subscribers received part 1. I forgot to tell you in the last issue that during the 4-week stay in […]
Internal (Eternal) Medicine: Part 1 of 4
November 2, 1998 Monday HELLO TO [my captive audience] ALL [old and new] SUBSCRIBERS OF MY ONLINE E-MAIL JOURNAL OF INTERNSHIP! Think you missed an issue? Wrong. The journal had been out of circulation for about 2 1/2 months due to computer inaccessibility…. In other words, I haven’t been home since August (or was it […]
Rehabilitation Medicine (JOINT journal entry)
August 22, 1998 Saturday Dear everyone-on-my-generic-on-line-journal-of-internship mailing list, Hello! This installment of the journal is about my 2-week rotation in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, which happens to be my specialty of choice. Duh? For people who do net know about this young field, Rehabilitation (a.k.a. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, PM&R or Physiatry) is called […]
Obstetrics and Gynecology: Part 2 of 2, The Philippine Centennial Celebration
June 13, 1998 Saturday Belated Happy Centennial* to All! The country is now 100 years and a day old. I’m post-duty right now, which is why I’m free and at home doing my mail. I went on duty yesterday at the Obstetrics Admitting Section (OBAS), June 12, beginning at 7 am. One of my duty-mates, […]
