Tag: blogosphere

  • Thing(s) that we do outside our clinics…

    One thing I always do whenever I get this “blogger’s-duh-moments” is read what my fellow docs write  or see what they’re up to in their blogs. A kind of stalking yes, but believe me, their stories are pretty inspiring. Busy schedules aside, some write ups and post reveal a lot about their preoccupation outside of their medical careers!

    Hobby-Happy:

    Take Prudence MD‘s Toycon 2010 experience. I did know she liked cosplay but attending  a Toy Convention sans the odors and the bumpy crowd? Your guess is as good as mine. Hooked!  I noticed too she had a new medical site named MROD notes! Rock on senior!

    Gigi, fellow orthopod (who I suspect is a linguist too, a musician perhaps) narrates and critiques a french movie. Seriously I know nothing french except fries and toast, but yeah I wouldn’t wait 40 minutes for a movie. There I said it.  Cause you said so.

    Cooking aside, I missed Manggy’s food post and pictures. Uh, well, how can you resist such yummy food photos? Even if half the time, I don’t know what’s cooking?!

    Medicine outside of the clinics:

    Merry Cherry, the family physician in training is ripping his hearts out with “money matters”, in treating her patients. Welcome to the real world. No, the real, real, medical world where money does matter and all you can do is comfort our patients. Thumbs up for the experience!

    Ugh! Brian‘s Realizations… We have plenty of them indeed. You don’t have to go to craniec or cardio monitoring however. Learn the best from both worlds- books and consultants that is. What I’m sure of is as a resident, you’ll get a hit anytime and anywhere you least expect. But then, it’ll pass. It’ll pass..Five years isn’t that long.

    Extended learning:

    Doc Clairebear, who chronicles from the middle of nowhere, (oo nga, saan nga ba?) started her birthday on a positive note. That of seeing life in a positive light. Well, if you were negatively grounded before, I certainly didn’t noticed. But let’s start your birthday with a drive test that you passed. Positive.

    When one talks of new beginnings in a seemingly tunneled professional life, I turn to this post by Doc Ian. The professor is now a student, again. And he’s excited about it. All I can say Doc is, “did we ever stop being a student?”.  Good luck and I will be reading your posts more often.

    Politics:

    Doc Martin Bautista thanked us all, for all our support even before he walked the path of politics. Even if he hadn’t gain a seat in the senate, he helped fulfill our collective of expression of hope, for a new president. For P. Noy. Mabuhay Dr. Balikbayan.

    Doc Doray, is on her second term as QC councilor. The running councilor is continuing her run for a good city legislative council. The best of luck sis!

    The Bubbleman talked dirty on dirt deep politics. Heart you man. After automated election, maybe we should automate voters education. What’d you say?

    Ligaya should now be happy too. His president is now our president. Mock me, but how she arrived at her presidential choice, is strikingly similar to me. Let’s cross fingers Ligaya, that our president will perform par with our expectations.

    Mommy matters:

    Megamom, mega busy with mega kids, mega cooking and mega pictures. What’s left of that is well, for mega works. I’m waiting for her mega posts hopefully soon…

    Joey, joey, Joey! Why are you so busy? This raket scientist-mom I knew has the best of all worlds -a busy  medical and non-medical career. Her blog is streaming with posts. Yes, supermom. Go!

    Kittymama never fails to bring and infects us with her stories of hope. Her inspiring stories of autism and her love for her child, tells us Yes, there is always hope. Read her post and you’ll know what I’m talking.

    Partying, singing and the like…

    Yes, the Eye Doctor, singing the Eraserheads ultraelectromagnetic pop songs on karoake?? Hey Doc, I love Bob Marley. The knight’s on daily weed, that’s why his songs are kinda, “weedy”.

    And uh, our anesthesiologist online, Dr. Ness, who posted tidbits of her escapades outside the OR theater and the net. She must be very busy getting all those stuff, judging from the signage she’s laughing her heart’s out. And who told you OR people don’t party?

    Travel. More travel:

    So where in the world is Em Dy? Me, I don’t know. But what I’m pretty sure is she’d be posting another thought on her blog from basically anywhere in the world. Hint: She’s not on the go when shes blogging about movies.

    The sign on this blog read “The doctor is out: Beachy“. I won’t bother disturbing.

    Oh, careers:

    Her last shout/ whisper to the universe, should be titled “sunday duty no more“, as her blog url will tell us. One thing I can share about leaving a training program “It damn take as much courage as sacrifices as pursuing it“. So yes, go to where you are happy to. Suportahan ta ka!

    Explaining:

    Talking about heat exhaustion during this hot summer season. The Emeritus doc at Parallel Universe talked about how heat can kill a diabetic, hypertensive patient (let me add to that, a diabetic, hypertensive, politician). But not heat stroke, thank god, but Cerebrovascular Strokes. Certainly media and election hype did a thing to the misconception. So beware..

    Family, or when we ourselves become the patient (or patient’s significant others)

    Don’t give up Doc Abner, there’s always hope. Or something to hope for. Like our patients, all we can do is hope and comfort for our patients. That doesn’t exempt us and our families. God bless you and your family.

    Doc Ducay is happy. Totally overjoyed with the new addition to her family. What a happy new year indeed!

    Stressed now?

    Hop into Doc’s Grace Clinic. Why such blog exudes relaxation and coolness, go check it out. But I have to ask though, what’s in for guys like us doc?

    Well if you missed The Blog Rounds, don’t be surprised to read the most recent most edition here. And I’m greatly indebted to Doc JA for hosting TBR and the contributors, Doc Gigi and Doc Sonia. Thank you to all of you! Yes, I learned that too in Kindergarten.

    Well the last, but my favorite recently, Last Minute Madness. Doc Sonia blogs with totally entertaining and streaming frequency. Some of her diary like stories is almost always fresh from the box, err, the bus. Read her moonlight saga here and get swooned.

    There, all the edema rounds in half a day! Whew, what at read. Now I have so many things to write. Like this post.

    For my fellow MD TBR bloggers, if you have reactions (violent or otherwise) leave your comment here.  Please update your links to this blog also, since I changed url sometime ago!

  • Orthopedic Logbook Reloaded

    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.

    I’m pretty sure it’s just my juicy posts that you’re interested. And nothing else. (I offer no freebies for now..) So I made it simple for you.

    First, subscribe to my blog and get every post I have here right in your inbox.  Enter your email  in the subscription box in the sidebar. Or if you use an RSS reader, click the upper right hand most menu that says “RSS” and you’ll be subscribed after a few more clicks. If your particularly interested in a topic, do a search in my top sidebar. Or scan through my archives, my categories or the tags all easily accessible in the sidebar.

    If you find the post title you wanted, all you need to do is click on the large title font and presto you’ll on the article you wanted. If your fonts look weird, that is probably because you don’t have a flash player installed in your pc or browser. This theme implemented an SIFR font enhancer to highlight words and readability. SIFR needs a flash player . Go get it here and install it now, or you’re actually missing (99%) what’s the best of online contents.

    Of course I would appreciate it  if you leave a comment in my articles. You don’t need to be logged in to do that but I prefer you do to avoid spamming and know you better. If you don’t have a gravatar, grab one. That will put a face to that mystery icon in the comments. Please be patient if your comment isn’t approved instantly, cause I may not be online to do that ASAP. But yes, I will attend to it a soon as I am online.

    Again, I’m urging you, to subscribe to my blog, via emails, or through an RSS to get my post faster. You can also follow this blog on Facebook, on twitter and on so many other social networks you like. Just click the button and the rest is given to you.

  • I am sorry…

    My sincere apologies, to you, dear readers and followers.

    1. For not having posted anything new in this blog for quite sometime.
    2. For transferring my site url without the necessary ‘temporary redirect page” and thus confusing you all.
    3. For messing up this blog and its layout several times, that even me the author,  got lost in the site navigation .
    4. Leaving the blog rounds temporarily in mess and its publications schedules unmet…

    I have transferred this blog,  from a free subdomain platform Blogger, to a self hosted WordPress blog The Orthopedic Logbook (https://remomd.com/blog).

    The clamor for transferring this blog to a better platform is getting louder. The so many features I need to suit my readers is just not available on free versions. Or I’d consume more time hacking just to do a run around for this features. Transferring entails time, funds and a lot of layout tweaking.  Time, that  often interfered with my regular job. And funds? It all came from my shallow pocket. The tweaking though ate most of my time, as I am new to wordpress.

    I realized though that even as blogging is as important to me,  readers and subscribers need to know the whys and what the heck of my sudden but  “temporary” disappearance in the medical blogosphere.  And I hope, I have not lost your trust and confidence in me and my blog.

    I hope with my new home and eye friendly layout, it will be easier for you to get hold of my articles, navigate through my blog . I will tackle how to navigate through my blog in my next post.

    Again, my sincere apologies and thank you for your continued patronage of my blog, The Orthopedic Logbook!

  • Bonedoc according to…

    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 UPDean 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…

    NetizenI 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.


    Blogger

    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.