I imagine being smacked in the forehead by a dragonfly at 115mph on a motorcycle would be right up there with dropping a penny on someone from the top of the empire state building in the deadly urban myth category. Fortunately for me I decided to wear my helmet today. It’s fairly true that life [...]
Archive for the ‘travel’ Category
Sometimes I just can’t pull myself to write about work, although some patients are amusing….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m64cy1MMPg I’ve decided to break up the monotony by inserting random entries from my travel journals… —————————————————————————– Laos is long considered the undiscovered beauty of Southeast Asia. Floating down the Mekong in a two day long flat bottom boat [...]
I never planned to devote to much time in Malaysia, but then again I never really plan. Lodged between Southern Thailand and Indonesia Malaysia is a country of contrast. Kuala Lumpur the countries ultra modern capital is worlds apart from the primitive rainforest in the middle of the country that is one of the oldest [...]
So keeping a travel journal is hard enough, updating a blog without having a laptop while on the road is another story. Sorry to anyone keeping tabs that I haven’t posted in a while. The time that it takes me to write doesn’t fit too well with the cost of Internet cafes, and always being [...]
As I was leaving Bali I managed to have one last adventure. About 35 minutes before my flight to Kuala Lumpur was scheduled to leave I we3nt to pay my bill at the airport restaurant and my credit card was MIA. Trying to stay calm I realized I had left it at a surf shop [...]
The first stop on the two month journey around SE Asia was the Philippines as we were in commute to Bali. We had to fly into Manila, drive to the distant city called Angeles or something like that and find a hotel for the night to catch a different flight the next day. From reviews [...]
Psyc- A crazy End!
Posted: March 5, 2009 in Med School, travelTags: Medical school, mental health, palau, travel
For my very last week of med school!! Whoohoo I thought I would check out the Behavioral Health unit in the hospital. Palau has one of the highest rates of schizophrenia in the world toping out at somewhere around 2-2.5 people/100, and has been the focus of several international behavioral health studies trying to figure [...]
Last Friday we finally ventured out to a bar. It’s a shame really that we have been here for nearly 3 weeks and haven’t really gone out, but in all fairness every day we have been waking up early to either go diving, or go to work. The bar of choice was this joint named [...]
International med – Paradise Interrupted
Posted: February 27, 2009 in Med School, travelTags: Medical school, palau
Many of the clinics on the remote Islands were built within the last decade or so. Much of the disease they have seen within this time has been what you would expect, a steady diet of hypertension, diabetes, coughs and colds. But just imagine if these clinics were older, much older. What if these tiny [...]
At the start of this week there was very little direction with concern to what I was actually supposed to be doing. Not terribly wanting to commit to one service for the week and risk being bored to death by a small uneventful patient load or being trapped in an OR, I headed over to [...]
