Inspired by Christopher Sell of the Chip Shop

I found this recipe online while reading Julie Powell's blog. Then I got up and fried some Milky Way, 3 Musketeers and a cookie. Turned out pretty good.  The batter was light and crisp and contrasted the candy quite well.

This batter is great for making fish and chips. But also great for frying other ( Read more... )

"Fall in love, stay in love."

"Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in a love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your ( Read more... )

Services at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center and the AFP Medical Center are straight out of dreamland.  I have heard my colleagues describe working there this way:  "You are able to deliver quality health services for free." The government foots the bill.   If someone needs neurosurgery, rthopedics, Ct Scan, Ultrasound, Clinical ( Read more... )

Zero Days to Go

Yesterday was the last day of internship. We shared it with blockmates and friends at different points of the day. From the end of our last duty,  a last lunch at the mess hall, a thanksgiving mass, SUNUGAN, and the after party at Koi.  People walked through the day knowing that something was different, knowing that today would be ( Read more... )

Not one experience can adequately describe the training one goes through in becoming a physician. Not one day goes by that a medical doctor does not remember the rigors of his formation.  Today marks the  end of an era in the lives of two hundred and fifty medical graduates.  Today is the last day of Internship.

Today should not be any different ( Read more... )

If the saying, "adversity introduces a man to himself," is true, then internship must be adversity. It is during my internship that I experience geting to know who I would be as a doctor, what my weaknesses are, where I thrive best, how I better learn and why on earth I was moved to become a doctor ( Read more... )

4/10/10

Written after a serendipitous conversation with Joti regarding my Community Medicine Fears and Dreams. My internal conflict with glamorous and beautiful medicine and amy love for community organizing.   Thank you Joti, for reminding me:

Sometimes the road gets cloudy. So you just have to grasp onto your vision.
You and you alone know what ( Read more... )

The best time of your life to make mistakes is during your training.  I never understood in the past how on earth the adage: "the best way to learn is from your mistakes" came from.  I always had the notion that if you knew the right thing to do, you would do it, plain and simple.  The plain and simple truth, though, is, we don't always know ( Read more... )

I'm a medical doctor, a young one.  I work in a goverment hospital as an intern and day to day we encounter death and destruction, as well as life.  Between 24-36 hour shifts and patients who come in bleeding and with a varying number of complaints, I live a pretty normal life.  But I've had a number of my non-medical friends comment and ask me: " ( Read more... )

    What is the best thing I learned in PGH?  I learned many things - that doctors are human, with the basest of instincts like survival and self preservation. I learned that no two doctors are alike in method or ambition. I learned how to appreciate/condemn the menial medical tasks needed in facilitating diagnostics and treatment for patients. I ( Read more... )