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Journal of Internship
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 […]
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, […]
