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Sickening tales of a medical intern

Thursday, 18 March 2010 12:02 AM Jessica Salao
Sickening tales of a medical intern

(As told to the author)

Being a doctor is wonderful in theory.

After almost ten years studying the human body and putting this knowledge into practice through internship, a medical student finally graduates and gets to pin a name tag on his white jacket that says "M.D." If he gets so lucky as to pass the board, he will apply for residency in some hospital to specialize in some field of medicine for three to five years, depending on what he chooses. Then comes the sub-specialization phase of his training, which will again take a number of years.   It is at this point that the fledgling doctor gets into a specialist’s wings and becomes a "fellow."

I am one of these young doctors – a medical intern.

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From a thesis to a business

Thursday, 18 March 2010 12:00 AM Ian Jester M. de Vera
From a thesis to a business

In any university, engineering is often vaunted as among the most difficult courses.  Why not!  They have a surfeit of the toughest subjects -- Mathematics in all its mind- boggling variants, Physics, Chemistry, and other Science subjects.  That is why drop-out rates are among the highest for Engine...

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No kidding, for P20, you can sleep in a hotel!

Wednesday, 17 March 2010 12:02 AM Dennis Villegas
No kidding, for P20, you can sleep in a hotel!

Transients, street-sleepers, the homeless, and night workers, can now sleep comfortably in a hotel without spending too much. For an incredible P20 a night (plus P5 for shower), the Gwapotel 2 in Tondo, Manila offers a capsule bed made of hard plastic, so that common people in need of a safe place t...

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Women who repair cars (Women take man-sized jobs)

Wednesday, 17 March 2010 12:00 AM Annamanila
Women who repair cars (Women take man-sized jobs)

Formerly typecast in office, teaching, and nursing jobs, or at assembly lines and small-component fabrication units in electronic factories. or as packagers in food companies, today’s women are rushing in where their mothers feared to tread or were barred from.

"If men can do it, so can women," they ...

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Moving

Tuesday, 16 March 2010 12:00 AM Rudy Lao
Moving

Next to marriage, no other event in our lives requires so much from us, both physically and mentally, as moving.

Almost everyone’s done it at least once at some point in their lives ---some, more frequently than others.

It could be just across the street, the next town, another city, or, for the more ...

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