What the pox?!

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So I guess my Clerk's Notes series will have to come to an abrupt end, seeing as I am no longer a clerk. Very happy about that! I also get a perverse glee thinking about all the wrongdoings I committed in clerkship that went unsanctioned / unnoticed, like coming in late on certain days or case write-ups that I half-assedly crammed.

I was supposed to start internship yesterday at the Toro Hills Health Center. Sadly, I've been put out of commission for a while thanks to this weird viral illness I've contracted. Nobody can say for sure what it is but Doc Sio suspects German measles. As such I have to wait for my horrid rash to subside before I can even think about returning to work.

Which sucks big time. There are so many exciting things happening at the health center this week. I was supposed to be part of the first batch of Ateneo interns to ever rotate there, and here I am sitting pretty at home, waiting out a stupid rash.

Been marathoning Gilmore Girls on Netflix these past two days to help pass the time. I am hopelessly addicted. It took all my willpower to get myself to turn it off so I can start getting my life back together.

This year will be different. I'm an intern now. An intern! And I'm also part of this new community internship track that ASMPH is offering for the first time. I'll be spending 6 months in the Toro Hills Health Center and 6 months in hospitals. This is the first time the school is launching the program, so there are a lot of details that we need to work out. But these are all technical and boring and I would rather spare you the trouble of reading through it.

Anyway, I'm gonna put my feet up and enjoy my extended vacation time. Til the next time the spirit of writing possesses me.

With the doctors and interns who are with me on this crazy new community-centric journey. (Photo c/o Doc Lims)

Designed these flyers to advertise the center's new specialty clinics. Just because I'm out of the center doesn't mean I can't still be useful! (Photo c/o Tang)

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