Since I started The Orthopedic Logbook about three and half year ago, I never thought such knee jerk “jump” at this social media will have any impact on  any readers at all.  Health blogging  is at its greatest boom back then and I know my blog would just be one of the thousands targeting the health niche. But grabbing a niche and be popular wasn’t my agenda then. It isn’t,  and will not be up to now.

Bonedoc, author of this blog, The Orthopedic Logbook

I’d started blogging about almost everything including health care in order harness my writing skills and share information.  There’s a lot I learned (and I’m still learning) in med school, the hospital and in the lives of every patient physician’s out there. Holding these information to myself will benefit no one. There’s no way but to share it too, to be part of a greater community knowledge and for a better health care. The  influx of information, including those in medicine,  came rapidly and tremendously because sharing of ideas exploded.  This blog contribution to health care, though how minuscule, will go a long way in shaping the minds of wired, health care citizens.

I’m bringing health and health care information right in front of our wired health citizens out there, Filipinos and globally. Majority of Filipinos are not yet connected to the net, but the increasing trends points to a better scenario in the years to come. That’s inevitable too. Filipinos will surely, later if not sooner. The powers of these new social media in connecting people and providing information is an inescapable paradigm. Either we take advantage of it or we stagnate with health care information.

So next year, after 167 posts and 108 comments,  The Orthopedic Logbook will

1. Continue to deliver personalized health and health care ideas right in your desktop.
2. It will also maximize the other emerging social media to help anchor these ideas to your needs. Facebook and Twitter have invaded the web and health care has yet to capitalize on these growing third media.
3. Majority of Filipinos are interconnected via cellphone and sms, that should be another good area to explore.
4. The author will also talk on various social media forums on health care and health care blogging.
5. I will also try to “create” community for health care readers and health care writers…

Thank you my dear patrons and readers. Expect a better and simpler Logbook in the years to come! Don’t hesitate to subscribe to this blog, comment on any of my posts or just contact me thru mail for any suggestions to wanted to convey. I promise you I’ll answer them in the soonest possible moment!  Thank you once again and Merry Christmas!

After so many rounds of theme changing and theme hacking, I ended with this really  “simple” and “neat”   layout thanks to 3Roads Media. I’m immensely happy with it.  Don’t be fooled however. This  theme   is “superb” with the right enhancements. It’s clarity and simplicity is second to none.

Even with this simple layout, there’s a bit of how to just so you won’t get lost while navigating within my blog. It also eases out your way on getting what you need with a few clicks.

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(Note: The speech delivered by Dr. Remo Aguilar during the turnover ceremony of twenty free wheelchairs donated by Phi Kappa Mu Fraternity last May 18,2009 in City Hall Grounds Tacurong City)
To our good Mayor Lino Montilla, Vice Mayor Collado, members of the Sangguniang Panglunsod  and the entire city hall staff, my fellow working citizens of Tacurong, To our dear differently able wheelchair recipients, ladies and gentlemen, maayong aga sa inyo tanan!

If you strip a man with his vision, he will not be able to SEE where he is going.If a man loses his mind, he lose any capacity to KNOW where his going. But do you know what feels more frustrating than the two human beings above?A human being who CAN SEE where his going, who KNEW where could go, but who could NOT because his two legs wouldn’t allow him to go anywhere AN INCH away from his sick bed!

Phi Kappa Mu, which stands as the most venerable Fraternity of the College of Medicine, is an exclusive fraternity of medical students and physicians based in UP College of Medicine. Founded in 1933 upon the principles of Leadership, Excellence, Service, and Brotherhood, the fraternity has raised some of the most outstanding physicians in the country, including two of the three UP medicine graduates from this city, Jovino Bobot Morte Jr of UP Medicine Class 1978 (who happens to be my parent’s wedding ninong) and yours truly are proud PHIs and Tacurongnon.

In its Diamond Year and as part of a lifetime of service,Phi Kappa Mu will be distributing more than a thousand wheelchairs for free under the Empowerment Through Mobility project.
The objective of this project is to help indigent patient who are disabled and communities with such populations. The top-quality wheelchairs are acquired through a partnership with Free Wheelchair Mission, a worldwide organization whose aim is to restore mobility to those who need it across the globe.In the Philippines, the Phi Kappa Mu is now the conduit for that hope.

With Empowerment through Mobility, the Phi Kappa Mu ,Free Wheelchair Mission and the Social Welfare Department of this City and together with several partners nationwide, will change over 1600 lives including twenty for this city.

By making that first few inches away from the sick bed, these Tacurongnons can work on to improve their lives and become a better, productive citizens of this city.

I want to thank our honorable mayor Montilla, our city administrator Nicolo, our CSWD working staff headed by Madam Fhem, for bringing in the wheelchair to our city and to these deserving recipients.

To the recipients, hopefully your lives will be changed from here on.

Again, thank you and good morning to everyone.

(Some part of this speech where derived from Marc Denver Tiongson’s (Phi SE) by line during the turn over ceremony in Manila)

Sexy? “Insanely obsessive-compulsive, sarcastic…and butt sexy..” – Joy V, Perennial Wanderer (pretty obvious who she is)

Stylish….

Nine year old Rain sent me this card..

Idol. Heard this from my son’s lips; “Dad I’ll study medicine in UP “-Dean Russel Aguilar

Debater (huh?) Mamang Helen told me this one time we had some heated political debate.. “Ang hirap mong debatihin kasi ang yabang mo!” to which I answered  “No objections your honor” I answered…

“Kuripot!” Ate Lynette told everyone in the picnic table when I only gave a gallon of double dutch ice cream. There were fifteen of us drooling for thirst quenchers. I only have five hundred pesos in my wallet…

Nanlilibre. “Libre mo Dok?” Chris asked me when I asked for a TAMAC dinner and pre climb meeting …

Tormentor. “Stay behind and watch Dr. Aguilar grill Dr. ——- during the pre op conferences” One ortho resident trying to dissuade a female guest doctor from leaving early and watch our lively preop conference instead.

NPA (No permanent address) “Where did you sleep last night? In your car again?” One colleague asked me one time when I wasn’t able to go back to my home city after our regular Monday conference. “No sir i slept in the call room”..

Gadgeteer. “My phone line got haywire I don’t know how“. I told one ER Doc when he inquired why my phone line is always busy whenever he’ll refer a patient.  I also told him I have two cellphones he can call anytime…

Netizen “I was at home surfing the net“. My answer to another colleague in the clinic who was asking what I do whenever I don’t have patients in my clinic. “Saves electricity from useless air con and electricity use.”

Suspects he has Raynauds. “I can’t stand a biting cold!” That’s why I never dreamed of going out to the “Land of Milk and Honey”.

More:

“Robin Cook“  The first and only fiction writer whose medical suspense stories I read and collected.  But then I forgot where did I placed those paperbacks way back then…

“Stephen Covey” Perhaps his most  impressive self help books that “simplified” my already complicated life.


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I like this blog. His creative juices induces liters of nosebleeds for me. But this guy writes with so much style and logic I wish he’d blog again soon. He’s an orthopedic surgeon-academician by the way.

I’m proud of The Blog Rounds and the impressive bloggers who made it all possible.

A different tinolang manok from my mom- the unsung hero in my dinner table.

I did cry dry for this..

These experiences I won’t forget- surviving a grueling climb or this one in Mt. Matutum.

Talking about numbers and ages.

More post soon!