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Ramblings of a young Filipina doctor in quarter-life crisis, wandering through her life for the first time without a map. Random thoughts on life and medicine; being a doctor and being human.

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• Nosebleeding in English

  Posted on Friday July 18th, 2008 at 07:05 in australia, doctor, filipino migration, medical life

  Yes, I have been raised bilingual. Yes, I have been instructed in English since I've been old enough to read. Yes, I have used it in academic discussion for just as long and everyday conversation for ...

• Walking the WOC

  Posted on Monday July 14th, 2008 at 12:30 in doctor, doctors' plight, health, medical life, residency, the blog rounds

  See one, do one, teach one.There is only so much medical knowledge that you can glean from reading the books. An internist's clinical eye can only be developed by actually seeing. A surgeon's hands ca...

• Lucky Country

  Posted on Wednesday July 9th, 2008 at 06:26 in australia, doctor, doctors' plight, health, medical life, philippines

  the healing hands fountain in front of the hospital where i work (photo from flickr)I've been working here just a over week, and I still can't get over how lucky "public" patients here are. I know th...

• Blue Monday

  Posted on Monday July 7th, 2008 at 07:57 in doctor, friends, philippines, residency

  those i'm friend-sick forPeople warned me it would catch me unawares. And just like that, it did.I've had a bad day at the hospital today. I can't go on a comfort shopping spree because there's nowhe...

• Mission Impossible

  Posted on Friday June 13th, 2008 at 19:33 in doctor, doctors' plight, filipino migration, travel

  This is not even half of it...It was hard enough packing up three years of my life away in the callroom last December, when all I had to do was throw things in my car and drive them to storage at home...

• Disasters and Miracles

  Posted on Wednesday June 11th, 2008 at 09:32 in doctor, filipino migration, single life, travel

  This past week has been a whirlwind of activity - what I get for being a pessimist and putting off everything that needed to be done until the very last minute. Exactly one week to my fly day, and the...

• Hitting Panic

  Posted on Wednesday June 4th, 2008 at 03:34 in doctor, filipino migration, pinoy life, single life

  photo by KrystenI already have a flight date, almost all of my papers are in, and it seems as if all systems are really go. I've completed most of my shopping, and I have enough time to finish sorting...

• Off the Edge

  Posted on Thursday May 29th, 2008 at 19:41 in doctor, filipino migration, medical life

  photo by timwillisThis is how I feel at the moment.The visa is in, and suddenly I am careening full speed ahead. While I know I have been planning this trip for months, I feel like I've been suddenly ...

• Under the Influence

  Posted on Friday May 9th, 2008 at 02:57 in doctor, medical life, residency, school memories, the blog rounds

  my co-resident Jill during teaching rounds with her students Up to my 4th year of medical school, I was going to be a pediatrician after I graduated. Since I'd always enjoyed kids, I thought becoming ...

• Laid to Waste

  Posted on Thursday May 8th, 2008 at 07:36 in doctor, friends, rants, single life

  So Sick of This by aperfectfailureDue to incredibly bad luck, the three hectic days I spent attending my specialty society's annual convention - full days of lectures by day and living out of various ...

• I Don't Smoke

  Posted on Thursday May 1st, 2008 at 02:39 in doctor, medical life, residency, the blog rounds

  photo from flicker I don't smoke. I've never touched the stuff in my life, and I never plan to.I don't drink often - maybe once or twice a month at most - but when I drink, I pull out all the stops. B...

• The Lucky Ones

  Posted on Friday April 18th, 2008 at 10:25 in doctor, doctors' plight, medical life, pinoy life, the blog rounds

  I grew up in the art and practice of medicine in one of the largest tertiary charity hospitals in the Philippines, the UP Philippine General Hospital.As a leading charity referral center, we received ...

• It's Out of My Hands - and I'm Going Nuts

  Posted on Thursday April 10th, 2008 at 20:52 in doctor, filipino migration, medical life, rants

  Now that I've more or less made my immediate future plans more public, everyone has been asking me when I am leaving for Perth. My standard response used to be, "Probably some time in May to early Jun...

• The Blog Rounds 3 - At a Crossroads

  Posted on Tuesday April 1st, 2008 at 06:02 in blog carnival, doctor, doctors' plight, filipino migration, medical life, pinoy life, the blog rounds

  Welcome to the Middle of Nowhere and the 3rd Edition of The Blog Rounds!Before anything else, I'd like to thank all the medical bloggers who participated in this edition of The Blog Rounds for their e...

• The Blog Rounds Visits the Middle of Nowhere

  Posted on Tuesday March 25th, 2008 at 12:48 in blog carnival, doctor, medical life, pinoy life, the blog rounds

  The Blog Rounds, a blog carnival for Filipino medical bloggers, will be coming to my middle of nowhere next Tuesday, April 1st, at 12am (Philippine Time).As doctors, nurses, or members of the allied m...

• Frozen Feet

  Posted on Friday March 21st, 2008 at 03:03 in doctor, filipina, filipino migration, medical life, ramblings

  photo by Sandi1947After months of waiting in uncertainty, I finally got a definite job offer from this hospital in Perth, Western Australia.Yes, it's true. I have decided to join the Great Filipino Di...

• Pinay MDs on Singlehood

  Posted on Tuesday March 18th, 2008 at 01:37 in doctor, filipina, single life

  While I am no longer living in the bitter barn this morning, the touchy topic of impending spinsterhood is still on my mind.I've blogged about this topic several times, in varying moods, both in a pos...