Another story of a resident on the verge of quitting

I have known two residents from my department who quit on their second year of training. The first one had immense potential but quit six months before reaching her third year. The latter was short of average — the department did not lose talent when she left; she was approaching six months to the last

Mental Health Check

Warning. Topic on suicide. A patient from the fifth floor of our hospital wards jumped from the window and died instantaneously just two weeks ago. He wanted to go home so bad. He was a Covid patient. He must have had it bad, I thought. No one in the office genuinely emphasized. Most were just

My General Anxieties: A Quick Life Recap (August 28, 2020)

[Allow me to repost an old blog content from a previous hosting platform. This is a post from four months ago while I was frustrated with the upcoming board exams and the general Philippine society.] 28 August 2020 I am approximately two months away from the Philippine Physician Licensure Exam’s tentative date and here I

Happy Covidays.

It has been a helluva of a year. It’s been so bad I don’t even need to discuss it anymore because everyone, and I mean literally everyone, is affected. Murphy’s law was so on point this year. Okay, this year has not been a complete downer for me. I passed my licensure exams after years

Hello, there.

This is my attempt to a blog post. Let me introduce myself. My name is Beverly and I’m a newly-minted physician from the Philippines. I decided to formally start a blog because, other than I felt like it, I had this raging urge to tell the world what is on my mind but not in