Hello, first Full Moon of the New Year There is a full moon out tonight, and on my way to my car after work, I paused to take a look at this silver orb suspending against the clouded cobalt blue sky, and wondered, "What do I want to let go off?"
A special report from the Special Care Nursery Guess who got to bring her laptop to work today and get the chance to blog (with coffee in hand!) in the pantry? That's right. This fortuitious Boxing Day, we get to experience the luxury of the ethereal "work life balance" everyone keeps banging on about.
Life update: Reflections after a month in Orthopaedics It feels like just yesterday that I was a clueless, clumsy, and chaotic first poster in surgery. Now, I'm in my third posting, and fresh medical graduates are addressing me as "senior". So, what's life like navigating the new posting?
Part 2: Because they lose sight of their 'why'. In the month that has passed since I asked a rather heavy question, and went on to explain the events that brought me there, I have finally come to an acceptable answer as to why people choose to end their lives. From where cometh this epiphany?
Part 1: Why do people choose to end their lives? What was meant to be the best, most accomplished day of the department turned into an absolute disaster, and I found myself feeling jealous of the house officer from Penang General Hospital that committed suicide last month. What on Earth went wrong?