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Leptospirosis Prophylaxis: Doxycycline

Sunday, September 27, 2009

If you have waded through the flood waters, please consider taking two tablets of doxycycline. It is an antibiotic that is supposedly not to be sold over the counter, but since we’re in the Philippines, you could probably get them even without a prescription.
If you’ve been exposed to flood water, take 2 100mg tabs of [...]

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Make Kid Patients In PGH Happy

Monday, February 16, 2009

I was assigned to rotate through different services in the Pediatric department and after an entire month of being exposed to young patients, it’s impossible to be unaffected by the degree of suffering, depression, hopelessness – and most tragically — loss.
These children are up against the toughest diseases. Some of them face the tall odds [...]

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Doing Medical Records: Just Like Blogging

Friday, January 23, 2009

Medical charts (or medical records) are in a lot of ways, similar to blogs. These folders contain the clinical picture of each patient that a medical facility has seen. In the Philippine General Hospital, these charts are the manuals and the how-to’s of managing a certain disease entity. Once a patient enters the wards, he [...]

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Catching Babies

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

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