Although rare, wrong site surgery happens even to the most able and busy OR team such as in this hospital. Imagine the horror of both the OR team and the patient discovering the closure stitches in the normal side after the procedure. But thats another story. What I’m a bit surprised is how the hospital administration managed to “rectify” the error and came out with…
Gender awareness for physicians: What needs to be done and how to do it!
Quite a number of studies showed that differences in gender awareness exist in the health care industry. However, this is not limited to professionals on the opposite side of the arguing fences, but also within professionals of the same gender. Consider this; “Ms. applicant A, considering this is a very “masculine” dominated training program and specialty, do you have any other training program in mind,…
Yes, doctors can blog, but not about their patient’s details.
I found this one year old post by Andy Merrett at The Blog Herald implying doctors should not blog because “they break medical ethics by sharing details of their patients“. The quoted statement is true, but his generalization is somewhat misleading. Here is an excerpt of the post. Should doctors, and those in other professions where confidentiality is at a premium, be allowed to blog?…
Sex in the Clinics (Doctor’s Cut)
Nope, it’s not what you think! But The Blog Rounds Fifteen Edition will tackle gender sensitive issues in medicine, on being a physician and on one’s specialty! Head on to Manggy‘s blog, No Special Effects, host to this interesting round of blog posts, to get a clear idea of what I’m talking about. His call for articles is already up here. For those unaware yet,…
Don’t think you are, know you are
I love the outdoors ever since I was a kid. In fact, I spent most of my childhood summers in the highlands driving water buffaloes and riding horses uphill with my cousins! So when a friend invited me to climb Mt. Apo one day, I answered with a resounding “Yes!”. Never mind that it was 20 years since I last set foot on a dirt…