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dalisay17 · 1 month
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12:30am. i received a call from a friend.
we lost another fellow doctor today.
it hit differently because I knew them since undergrad personally. They were bright, wielding a vibrant personality despite the odds. They brought this with them through med school - also through residency, I presumed. And we walked the same paths, but diverged in the detours.
To hear this update about them - someone I distantly knew, but had been rooting for in their chosen field when I heard about them from common friends - is unfair. Someone who was so close to becoming a person equipped to better the lives of others, lost before they even had the chance to do so.
we don't know the full context of why, how it lead to this, but this could have been prevented. we could speculate and speculate, but -
the system must have killed them.
the one who called me had added that a different institution lost 3 trainees to suicide in the span of a year - 2 of which from the same department, within the span of weeks from each other.
I tweeted about this acquaintance. But deleted it out of respect for those closer to them, because I only knew them in passing. I felt it wasn't my place to speak out before those close to them. but my feelings burned.
it is unfair for a system like this to persist. just a few weeks back, a consultant on twitter asked about why the number of those who went into residency continued to dwindle in number.
then this news of a suicide.
this system must be purged and wrought anew. dramatic, but there should be sirens for this demand. no team member should be left behind. and yet there are those who persist to claim it is the way it is to strain those of quality, rather than to build up individuals into stronger versions of themselves. that programs are there because skills are to be taught and learned - not gatekept for petty pride.
a weird segue, but a part of me hoped that there was a modicum of truth to the stories about being transported back in time or into other worlds. a trend in fiction nowadays. it may be useless, but i hope - hope and pray and wish it - that wherever their soul ends up, that their next chances at life would be kinder and more triumphant for them.
we'll miss you! and we'll continue to fight for a better world for those of the same ilk. but for now, i pray you can rest better, even for a while.
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dalisay17 · 4 months
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my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.
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dalisay17 · 6 months
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ok, looking back, maybe I was hasty and a little bid rabid posting this, but as an addendum and in retrospect: they're all good people, my family. People just have their own intricacies and priorities and standards.
I just don't like it when my chosen vocation - when the long, hard road I've chosen to tread despite the disadvantages - is insulted in any way. And I get their worries.
But there must be more civil ways to show worry than insulting one's chosen flavor of their profession. Especially if the concern is finances
(still slowly working on it with my mom. I mean - if I had gone into a vocation that is religious in nature, they wouldn't be giving me this kind of flak.)
It's annoying being obligated to do things because of the "blood" card.
Look, just because I chose a path that pays less and that I had a meeting conflict that occurs on the weekend of a birthday celebration, and you keep insisting my work is "volunteer" work doesn't mean that it isn't good work.
Also it's your mother's birthday, not mine. She's practically a stranger who only happens to have the same blood. She misspells my name, and I bet I'm easily forgotten in the presence of my other cousins. Not that I blame her, as there are a lot of us.
When I grow old, if I have children, I won't obligate them with birthdays. A nice surprise will work. But to obligate and deter your own schedules because of this annoying notion of "family" wherein the people involved in the latter don't even see you as much? And you argue with them about it just because they don't meet your standards in terms of what they earn? No thanks.
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dalisay17 · 7 months
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It's annoying being obligated to do things because of the "blood" card.
Look, just because I chose a path that pays less and that I had a meeting conflict that occurs on the weekend of a birthday celebration, and you keep insisting my work is "volunteer" work doesn't mean that it isn't good work.
Also it's your mother's birthday, not mine. She's practically a stranger who only happens to have the same blood. She misspells my name, and I bet I'm easily forgotten in the presence of my other cousins. Not that I blame her, as there are a lot of us.
When I grow old, if I have children, I won't obligate them with birthdays. A nice surprise will work. But to obligate and deter your own schedules because of this annoying notion of "family" wherein the people involved in the latter don't even see you as much? And you argue with them about it just because they don't meet your standards in terms of what they earn? No thanks.
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dalisay17 · 9 months
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proof of life: this is a variation of what my early mornings usually look like. going onto my third year of being a doctor, both as a moonlighter and in NGO-based community medicine, and a lot of things have been put into better perspective for me.
there's so much to share about the past 3 years since i started my practice after boards, especially about the growth i had failed to see because of impatience. it's slower here, on this side, but i think i know which paths to take better now.
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dalisay17 · 1 year
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med kilig moment of the season: yung masabihan ka na gumaan loob ng pasyente during a CBT/ MH First Aid session.
really might pursue psych at this rate, if push comes to shove, sa totoo lang
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dalisay17 · 1 year
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Kitty breakout
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dalisay17 · 1 year
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My holidays in 8 pictures.
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dalisay17 · 1 year
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Creative & DIY
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dalisay17 · 1 year
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dalisay17 · 1 year
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I've been lucky this holiday season - couldn't say the same for some of the others I know.
I just wish they had it easier. Why does the world have to be so unfair? :(
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dalisay17 · 1 year
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dalisay17 · 1 year
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Broke: vampires are vulnerable to the trappings of Christianity only, particularly Catholicism, no matter how dubiously applied. (See: Van Helsing's Communion wafer grouting).
Woke: vampires are vulnerable to sincere faith of all kinds, and atheist vampire-hunters need to believe very strongly in the Power of Friendship or their love of Star Trek to get by.
Bespoke: vampires are vulnerable to the faith that they followed when they were alive, and hunters tracking down an ancient vampire are obliged to learn about Neo-Babylonian theology or Middle Palaeolithic bear cults.
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dalisay17 · 1 year
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ya'll can tell I was slowly falling into Genshin hell as time went by 😂😂
TO BETTER PULLS (and RL luck) THIS 2023!! SEE YOU ALL ON THE OTHER SIDE!!!
(but first, Christmas!!!)
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dalisay17 · 1 year
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Wanderer wandering.
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dalisay17 · 2 years
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animation of charmander makin some pancakes
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dalisay17 · 2 years
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I should do essay pieces about how July has been nothing but a month of travel for me, after being cooped up in Manila for WHO-KNOWS-HOW-LONG, dear god.
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