One of the pleasant aspect of holidays is the break from the daily routine. You can sleep in, lounge around in your pajamas, stay out all night, and spend your time in any way you please. Although I do enjoy the rest, I have spent much of my holiday doing
Category Archives: Thoughts
Merry Christmas 2008
It’s been an eventful year 2008. New city, new school and a journey into medicine. Next year looks promising and I”ll be sure to update often. Have a happy holiday season, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope all your new year’s dreams and goals go well.
Worth Memorizing
As a medical student, my chief responsibility is to learn, unfortunately this often translates to large amounts rote memorization. As medical students, we memorize everything: science concepts, medical terminology, classic presentations of diseases, lists of common illnesses, names of famous dead men who discovered such and such disease… some days
Studying Can be Fun – Microbiology and Pokemon
Eventually at one point, memorizing large amounts of information becomes tedious. In my current case, studying dozens of infectious diseases can be quite boring. Learning about different bugs and their structural make-up, virulence mechanisms, mode of transmission, clinical presentations, diagnostic methods, treatment and prevention can soon become mindless. A few
Why Travel – New Perspectives of Old Scenery
Like most people, I enjoy traveling and as of lately, I’ve been flying everywhere for conferences. As a result, I’ve had some time to do some much-needed self reflections. Seeing a change of environment and exploring new places always excites me. I’ve always felt blessed that I’ve been to so
How Smart are Medical Doctors?
Medical Doctors Ranked First with Highest IQ amongst job professions How Smart are Medical Doctors? An interesting study published by the University of Wisconsin suggests that doctors (M.D or equiv O.D, dents, etc) have the highest IQ on average. Though I’m not a huge supporter of IQ tests but I
The Three Roads Ahead – Medical Career Paths
Usually medical students are busy deciding what residency or specialty they will end up in after their medical school years, for me I have a different question on my mind. What kind of medical career do I want to have? Medicine is flexible discipline, broad enough to have interests for
Famous Poems by Physicians
In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved,
The Meaning Behind the Name Medaholic
What is the definition of medaholic? The term “medaholic” was created by combining the word medicine with the -holic suffix, to imitate other -holic ending words (alcoholic, workaholic, shopaholic). The ending holic usually suggests an addiction, compulsive need, or love for whatever subject matter. Therefore, medaholic is a person who
Getting Back into Programming
I apologize to all the computer geeks out there: I am fully aware that running a website is not considered “real” programming. However, to a lowly medical student like me, reading code is like reading Greek. I haven’t played around with websites since the dot com bubble burst back in
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