After almost a month in Pediatrics, I finally managed to break an important psychological barrier. I managed to draw blood from a 2 months old. I was mostly lucky, the boy had a single visible vein. Which I attacked like a hungry leopard. With no fear I poked the needle in it. When the blood started oozing from the needle it was a great relief, I felt self confidence running through my veins. No more …
WHAT IS WRONG with electricity these days. Eight (and sometimes more) power cuts a day are way too much. I can't stand it any more, I am getting extremely agitated by this. My computer hard drives will die soon. I am starting to think that this is a deliberate plan to prevent me from reading blog stories about last Wednesday.
Who is the Ministry of Energy and Electricity ? He is from El Omranya.
I was told the following by a judge who was in charge of one of the polling stations in Cairo. And what he said probably explains why Orientalism didn't manage to cast a vote with his national ID only while Mohammed did.
There were two types of polling stations one monitored by judges and only people listed and have a voting card are allowed to vote. And another called a "Moghtarebeen" stations, they are special …
To all the assholes, who think that it is appropriate to leave the emergency room and go to the Al Fajr prayer. While the ER is full of patients and a dying 1 year old with only 2 doctors giving him CPR.
FUCK YOU
Till now, there isn't a single mobile phone with a large enough screen and keypad for old people. They still have to get their reading glasses out of their pockets and make their way through complicated menus to make a call.
Even if there is no emeregency, I don't enjoy watching them search for their reading glasses, put them on and start pressing on several tiny keys at once with their thick fingers.
And this …
Last Sunday, a father and mother came to the ER with their young daughter. A cute 1 year old was in severe stridor, dyspneic and breathing rapidly.
The mother said that the girl's father was watching TV and enjoying some Lebb. He offered his daughter one, the girl choked on it in seconds.
"What the .." I shouted in their face. "Why would you do that ? Don't you know that ..." I found it ridiculous to lecture …
There is a big chance that I will not remember your name. You will tell me your name tomorrow, next day I will forget it. The weird thing is, if it is a totally alien name that comes from a different culture and easy to pronounce. I will remember it for several years.
My biology teacher in school, she happens to be a doctor, had the same problem. She only remembered few names in class …
If you look at segment of a pavement in the street. You will come to a similar conclusion like mine; Pavements mirror the state of Egyptian institutions.
Each segment is being swept and kept clean by a Kanas. Everyday, in the morning, he sweeps pieces of paper and cigarette butts. Finishes a segment and moves to the next. Regardless of his work, the pavement is still as ugly as it was. Still very dusty and …
Human rights groups condemn the trafficking and exploitation of kids used as camel jockeys. They lobby hard to stop the use of young children slaves in such a dangerous sport. In 2003, UAE responded by a law that prohibits children under 15 or weighing less than 45 kilograms to take part in the sport. However there are evidence that young kids are still used.
Qatar recently responded by developing, with a Swiss robotics firm, a …
Started the pediatrics round, again.
Well, I need to explain this. The first ten days in the my internship. We were randomly distributed. I went to the pediatrics hospital in those few days. There, I got the worst flu in 15 years and had a good amount of grief and distress from the conditions of some children and the death of two of them.
After that, I had two months in Surgery. I learned lots …