Just as there is no wrong way to tell the truth, there is no wrong way to live your life. We get too hung up on the things we believe we’re supposed to accomplish and an invisible checklist of the way we should do things, and the order we should do them in. We end up missing out on the joy in the journey. Or worse yet, we get so afraid that we ( Read more... )

It was a typical day in Urology with an ever- changing list and add-ons in place of patients who were unexpectedly found to have COVID. After a fairly straightforward TURP (transurethral resection of the prostate), I was informed that my next case was a woman T.M. coming from the emergency department that has an obstructed stent and hydronephrosis ( Read more... )

This was a gentleman C.C. who was booked for an after-hours laparotomy to relieve a bowel obstruction. I went to go see him in the Emergency department where he was with his son. There was something about him. He wasn't particularly elderly or frail looking. He was in his late 70's, but he looked sick enough that after my standard preop anesthesia ( Read more... )

This is a story that has an unexpected turn. The main star of the story is not who it seems....as you will find.

I was consulted to do an lumbar puncture on a young woman T.A. in the emergency department. The consulting emergency physician was brief in her request, "There is a young girl who has a fever and fluctuating neurological symptoms. The ( Read more... )

Alberto Brandolini's Bullshit Asymmetry Principle (Brandolini's law) - "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

"I've also learned that the more we diminish our own pain or rank it compared to what others have survived, the less empathetic we are to everyone. That when we surrender our own ( Read more... )

I'm reading this book called "Minor Feelings" but Cathy Park Hong and I think it will be one of those pivotal life-changing books. I've read a few of those lately. It's been these exceptional books that have made a huge impact on me and these books I believe will be ones that I will remember. I have actually go out afterwards and buy a paper copy ( Read more... )

6. Dalhousie AnesthesiaHalifax seems like a nice city that has everything that I would need except that it is a bit smaller than most places and there is very little Asian culture. I think I would become even more whitewashed in a community like that and I'm not sure if I want to deal with that. Although it was winter, I can imagine how beautiful ( Read more... )

4. UBC Family InterviewThere was general informaiton given about each of the sites and the two that I applied to sound very good! I think I would want to be at St. Paul's, but the residents said that one of the downfalls of that site is that the population is very restricted to drugg addicts and HIV patients. But I was very impressed by their ( Read more... )

I've finished three interviews and people have recommended that I record how I feel at the end of each interviews, so that when it comes time to rank, it will be easier.

1. Ottawa AnesthesiaThe interviewers were very nice and laid back. I was interviewed by Dr. Wynne, Dr. Persaud, Dr. Barrows and Dr. Wynard ( Read more... )

Nickelback - Far Away ( Read more... )