AnneC.

Because we are still about 3 hours away from the new year, i'd save the happy new year greeting for later or perhaps tomorrow :p 2013 was a great year, reviewing my past blog entries make me really kilig with all the things i was able to experience (and that does not even include those that i fail to note in this blog!) :) And well, i started my 2013 with a year starter blog entry, that i think a year end blog is quite due :p In my first ever blog entry for 2013, I listed down words to serve as my reminders in facing year 2013 :) and in this last 2013 entry, id like to look back and well share how much these words had meant in this year that is soon to end :) Love Year 2013 was definitely full of love, for family, for friends and for that special person :") i am grateful for the chance to actually express love in every possible moment and receive loads in return :)  Patience and Understanding As i have written before, patience and understanding go hand in hand. And well, they ...

The warm fuzzy feeling given by the Christmas season gives me the urge to blog about well Christmas and our recently concluded stint at Pediatrics. I have always loved kids :) spending time with little ones makes me happy and the happiness of seeing kids happy is really priceless. Thus, many people thought I'd go into pedia and well I initially thought so too - from before entering medical school up to last year as a third year medical student. however, we all know that I enjoyed internal medicine way much. and the next rotations wherein we deal with some kids, made me really sad especially with how much I find lining kids and extracting blood from them extra difficult, and this really discouraged me into taking pediatrics as a field in the future. :| and then come our rotation in the Pediatrics ward. and it started to dawn on me why I don't think I'd ever have the heart to take care of sick kids, more than the difficult procedures. You see in the pediatrics rotation,...

I am almost two weeks late for this sort of required clerkship blog (that I keep for myself), since we are already halfway to the half of our month long rotation - pediatrics. You see, in medical school, we have the big four, internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics and OB because they are rotations which we go to for a month (and even longer come internship!) On the other end of the spectrum is the 'small four', taken two weeks each for two months :) And that is what I shall write about - Ortho, Rehab, Ophtha and ORL. Undertaking these four rotations is kind of a breath of fresh air after internal medicine. It was the right balance of workload, rest and learning. well at least for me :) and although these four are called, the small four, I definitely had big big big big experiences with these rotations :) Ortho is basically physics and anatomy, two things I find difficult. but I definitely enjoyed my ER duty despite having an ankle sprain. and although i despise OR assist...