About Me

Name: maan

Location: Philippines

i'm a total coffee addict. a hypomanic who runs and flips wild in the wards. has to constantly check on my schedule not because i forget things, but because i just obsessive-compulsively do so. i love singing and dancing so much, i just love having fun. and don't mess around with animals when i'm around, unless you want to be scalpeled down to your bones (just kiddin').

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It's been 3 months since my community rotation/vacation/better days. Right after my community rotation, I plunged into the endless labor watching and turfing of soon-to-be-mommies to other hospitals, not to mention the unmistakable pathognomonic stench of cervical cancer patients. I thought at first that it's going to be one hell of a rotation. Well, it's not at all benign, but it's better than I expected. The only thing that made me skip with panic was the post-duty endorsements. It's only at this time that I got to read the William's Obstetrics book. I learned quite a lot, understood better this time. The residents are much nicer than the ones we had at Ospital ng Maynila. Way nicer. One big disappointment I have with my OB rotation was that in my whole 2-month-stay in their department, I only got to deliver baby twice, unassisted, and made episiorrhapy only twice too. That's about 0.5% of record I made during my clerkship. The OB residents are the ones who do the deliveries more often at PGH (I try not to think that they don't trust us or something). I finished my OB rotation with a 2-day-absence, I caught a flu and caused a contagious spread of my bacteria to my other blockmates. So I'll be back again next year for my make-up duties.

After OB, I had my Ortho and Rehab Medicine rotations. These were like breathers in between OB and Internal Medicine rotations. I got to finish the first season of Heroes, the 6th season of CSI Miami and the 3rd season of House MD. Being an Ortho intern is like being a guest cast in an all-men tv series. Most of them are really, really good-looking. The most popular of them is Dr. Louie Gaston. He was once in a shampoo commercial. Almost all interns and clerks, and even the patients, faint at the sight of him. As Ross puts it, "hindi kumpleto ang iyong PGH experience pag di mo nakita si Gaston." He's handsome, intelligent, soft-spoken, and really nice...and old rich. And then there's also Dr. Patrick Dizon. I actually have a crush on him. They say that he's also once in a shampoo or a conditioner commercial. And then the Aga Muhlach-look-alike, Dr. Pasion. He was once in a movie casted as boyfriend of Claudine Barretto. Well, that was 20 lbs ago! My rehab rotation passed by without much story to tell. I never had a rehab exposure so it was the first time that I encountered some special tests for musculoskeletal conditions and was also my first time to ever use a goniometer. That's it.

Today is my last free weekend. I know that I have to be prepared for my IM ward rotation which they say is the most toxic of all rotations. A part of me wants to panic and read through all my books, but a part of me wants to savor the last hours of "freedom." I don't know. I just wanna lay flat on my back, play dead.