2. "Sometimes, bad things happen when we least expect it. Sometimes, good things happen when we least expect it."
    Carol Tan, Valedictorian of UPCM Class 2012 (via bismarkymark)
  3. "Those who aspire to face the agony and suffering of humankind must first themselves become acquainted with it."
    Doctors, Erich Segal

  4. josephineanne:

    Made by mi hermano.

    ninolucero:

    Life of a PGH Intern

    inspired by the videos “beauty of a second” this aims to show what goes on in a regular day of a Medical Intern of the Philippine General Hospital.

    Video Made By: Nino Lucero, Jesa Protasio, Kittina Mejia, Dinno Mendiola, Jay-R Magallanes, Junjun Lupisan and Richel Baclay. All from class 2012 of the UP College of Medicine.

    Ang ganda. At makakarelate na siguro ako sooon.
  5. Bachelor of Science in Basic Medical Sciences Now we can legitimately call ourselves post-graduate. Haha. 2 (looong) years more until we get those two letters we’re all working our asses off for. Labing apat, walang katapat! Congratulations also to UPCM 2012. Basta Dose, Ibang Klase! (Yey! Haha) :D

    Bachelor of Science in Basic Medical Sciences

    Now we can legitimately call ourselves post-graduate. Haha. 2 (looong) years more until we get those two letters we’re all working our asses off for. Labing apat, walang katapat!

    Congratulations also to UPCM 2012. Basta Dose, Ibang Klase! (Yey! Haha) :D

  6. I’m still waiting for pending OSCE results (hello, ophtha and orl), but until then, I’m officially on summer break!

    Today was dedicated to quick chores and me-time. I rented a toga for grad (yuck I keep forgetting that we’re “graduating” soon), and paid for a full kit of clerk stash (because I shall be a #clerkbyjune11. Haha di naka-get-over sa hashtag. :P). Also returned a friend’s set of post cards, finally. Haha.

    And then me-time! Originally just a reservation at the newly-opened Montalbo at UN Ave, it turned into a full-fledged oh-shit-clerkship-soon-celebration. Haha. I also spent time in CBTL reading something NOT related to med. It has become a yearly tradition, really, to prove to myself that I too can spend time in a coffee shop but not study. You know, like normal people. Haha. And lastly, foot spa and pedicure. Because I miss being a girl. :)

    Now to indulge myself on long-overdue TV catch-ups. Hihihi. :D

    Edit: HAHAHA Ok, see you again ORL. Oh well papel. :)) 

  7. UGH.

    I know I learned something as an ICC. But I’m already pretty sure the Comprehensive Exam we took earlier this morning won’t be reflective of this. 

    There are plenty of points I would have liked to raise to the committee, but there’s really no point listing them all here now would there? I did my best to take them down in the evaluation forms, but those would just benefit the next batches to come, should they be lucky. 

    UGH UGH UGH. We should’ve been told beforehand of the weight that exam held. To be judged during clerkship, internship and residency because of that single exam is bullshit. Although I don’t think I could have prepared any better had I known anyway.

    We all did what we could. And that’s that.

    OSCE tomorrow. I really should let go of this frustration and just move on. One more day until summer! This time tomorrow I’ll be coming home from a free dinner c/o our mentor. Hihihi.

    #clerkbyjune11!!!

  8. Regarding Compre and OSCE. #clerksbyjune11 :)

    Regarding Compre and OSCE. #clerksbyjune11 :)

  9. GPOY every time I think of how much I need to study for Compre and OSCE. OVERWHELMED IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. I’m surprised I haven’t broken down yet. Haha jk. 

    GPOY every time I think of how much I need to study for Compre and OSCE.

    OVERWHELMED IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. I’m surprised I haven’t broken down yet. Haha jk. 

  10. Hello, I’m still alive. Stuff I’ve been posting as of late are either queued or products of stolen 10-minutes study breaks. Hehe.

    Pharma and ORL finals, done! Just tomorrow’s Pedia and Psych finals left for this week. And then Compre and OSCE week after. 

    I’m so excited, we’re close to summer!

    And clerkship, but that thought-train is for another time. :)

  12. Psych Ward Summer: What I learned on my summer vacation: this is what happens when you say you’re going to kill yourself.

    Written by Joyce Nancy on Thought Catalog. 

    None of the doors have locks except the one to the outside. But for now, we are in, inside the walls of a hospital, inside the antiseptic air conditioning, inside the down-to-the-minute routines. Three meals a day, plus one snack at night. I want to warn the newly medicated scarfing down every scrap of food they see that their new pills will come with a healthy dose of weight gain — my extra 20 pounds already settled on my frame — but I let them eat; we need what small pleasures we can get. After all, we are truly locked in here: a place the patients keep calling “hell,” though some have given up fighting and begun to call it “home.”

    The first night I arrive absolutely terrified. They tell me I can smoke a cigarette in the outdoor cage. I see faces cloaked in darkness, intermittently lit by fireworks. It’s the Fourth of July. A girl introduces herself as V, and tells me it’s going to be okay, that I’m shaking, but I don’t have to be afraid. I’m introduced to some others and I realize quickly that this place is different; we are all desperate here. We are all afraid. I will not be left alone.

    My boyfriend comes to bring me coffee every day at visiting hour — real coffee — in here they only give us decaf and I haven’t sh-t for days. I hold his hands in my hands and try to forget where I am, crying when it’s time for goodbyes. With my parents, I cry as soon as they arrive. I am silent to their questions, barely sputter out that I needed to come, I needed to be safe, I wasn’t safe, and here they make you safe… even though old men in sh-t-stained gowns hit on me, even though paranoid schizos accuse me of poisoning them, even though at night all you hear is screaming, even though I take speed showers terrified the real crazy people will waltz right in. But I accept this as fact: I am more dangerous to myself than a psychiatric ward of crazy people.

    Read more.

    It’s such an interesting perspective. While I’ve already rotated in the Psych ward and spoken to these patients, we’ve never really established much of a connection, and so no profound conversations were had. Despite all the lovely activities in the ward, I’m sure it’s still a depressing place to be in, especially if you can still think straight.

  14. maybelline: Dream BIG. I’m definitely on the right track, then. 

    maybelline:

    Dream BIG.

    I’m definitely on the right track, then. 

  15. healinghopya: It has been five years of good company.  For all the laughter we shared and all the troubles we struggled through; for all the great relationships we’ve developed, all the valuable lessons we’ve shared with each other. I can never be more thankful. Can you believe we’re actually graduating (in paper only though, technically two years of hospital work remain); time flies by so fast. I will forever treasure and be grateful for having five years of my life shared with Intarmed 2014, and here’s to praying for more years together. Grad bash! Hihihi I miss us! :)) <3

    healinghopya:

    It has been five years of good company. 

    For all the laughter we shared and all the troubles we struggled through; for all the great relationships we’ve developed, all the valuable lessons we’ve shared with each other. I can never be more thankful. Can you believe we’re actually graduating (in paper only though, technically two years of hospital work remain); time flies by so fast. I will forever treasure and be grateful for having five years of my life shared with Intarmed 2014, and here’s to praying for more years together.

    Grad bash! Hihihi I miss us! :)) <3

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