Dermassage
This morning I was posted at the PGH Outpatient Department’s Section of Dermatology. From a medical intern’s standpoint, interviewing and examining patients with skin diseases is like a highly intellectual game of show-and-tell: the patient shows you what’s on his/her skin, you tell the resident what the patient has. It would not be worth blogging [...]
Doctor, Doctor I am Sick…
My first day as a medical intern was overrated. Too much hype. It’s either that, or it’s my so-called “benign powers” at work. There was this plump, pregnant cat lounging around the intern’s area (more of an intern’s window with a view of lush green vegetation in the form of mango tree branches). The way [...]
Internship Begins
In exactly one hour, my nameplate shall henceforth be color red. Along with several of my classmates, 7:00 am of today marks zero hour – that time wherein the outgoing interns of UP-PGH Class 2007 shall endorse their patients (for the last time as interns) to the incoming interns of UP-PGH Class 2008. No more [...]
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