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The Theoretical Doctor @[email protected] · 2025-05-12 · 01:00 UTC

My Grocery List As A Junior Doctor – While I Was In My Vegetarian Phase

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Being a Junior Doctor or a House Officer, we are located the lowest in the hierarchy of medical personnels. That is because we have just started practicing which means there is still a lot for us to learn on top of learning how to be a safe doctor as well as the simple management of the patients’ condition down to their tailored management. Thus, this automatically translates into long hours at work, a mentally and physically tiring journey as well as a reduction in our total night’s sleep.

Are we married to our work? In a way yes and also no.

Not that we want to or that we are workaholics but being in this field, it is an unspoken expectation which seems to have befallen us.

Thus, our so-called “work-life balance” is almost always in disequilibrium and we try our best to destress in whatever way suits us best.

For me, it is cooking and recently, I have embarked on a vegetarian journey for the Lenten season (at the time of writing this article, it was during Lent), as well as a way of trying to be a pinch healthier to my already unhealthy lifestyle.

Since I enjoy making my own meals, I rarely eat outside. Thus, the idea that vegetarian food is a little bit difficult to be obtained or ordered online, does not really bother me.

A bright side to this is that, I’m lacto-ovo-vegetarian, meaning I consume egg amidst being vegetarian as well as dairy products and throughout my vegetarian season, I did not reduce my food portion (which may be bad). Rather, I simply changed my food choices from non-vegetarian to vegetarian and from ordering take-outs to consuming more home prepared meals.

Thus, what are the grocery items that I ensure I stock up on a regular basis?

1. Tofu

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I absolutely CANNOT live without tofu. It is extremely versatile as I could make any kind of dish with it. Most of the time, I would simply dice it and marinade with some spices and air fry it.

At times, when I’m feeling fancy, I would use it as a burger patty as well.

2. Mushrooms

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This is another versatile ingredient. From enoki mushrooms to crab mushrooms, oyster mushrooms or button mushrooms, you name it. I’m a big fan.

I try my best to stock up on fresh mushrooms. However, since I go through it pretty fast, I would usually fall back to dried mushrooms since it is readily available in the mart of my residential area.

3. Eggs

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Luckily, I chose to be lacto-ovo-vegetarian, meaning if I ran out of ingredients, I could pretty much add egg, be it just cracking them into my broth or frying them.

4. Bird’s Eye Chilli

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Bird’s eye chilli or “cili padi” as we call it in Malaysia.

I am a big fan of spicy food and since I go through chilli powder pretty fast, I started incorporating them into my dishes.

Be warned though, if you’re not a fan of spicy dishes, adding one too many may render the dish unconsumable.

5. Rolled Oats

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This usually takes some time before it finishes.

Since I am a “heavy eater”, I started substituting my rice with rolled oats instead, which is something I started doing 2 years ago.

I’m not a big fan of having my oats with milk as I find it rather sweet or sometimes just bland for my palate. Instead, I prefer savoury dishes and the oats complements most of the dishes well.

6. Curry Leaves

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This does not really serve any purpose except I merely enjoy the aroma emitting when I sizzle it with oil, adding a nice aroma to my dishes.

7. Random Vegetables – Cabbage, Leafy Vegetables, Potatoes, Cabbage

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I started eating greens again.

I have always loved eating vegetables. However, it is not easily obtained since I do not have a car, I rarely go out and the nearby residential mart does not sell them.

Thus, I order online, I usually have a few fallback vegetables which I would add to my cart which are cabbages, any leafy vegetables, potatoes and aubergines.

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Cabbage is another versatile vegetable as I could add it to my curry dishes and it does not wilt immediately, as an extra ingredient in my stir fried noodles as well as when I cook “okonomiyaki”.

These are my food grocery list by default. I’m not exactly a health conscious person despite being a doctor myself nor do I reduce my food portion. It is merely a step for me to try and be a little bit healthier which is sustainable for me and hopefully in time, it deems fruitful.

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EL BLOG DE LAS CURIOSIDADES @[email protected] · 2025-04-28 · 13:00 UTC

💔 Cosas que me hubiera gustado debatir: ser mujer sin apoyo

¿Sobre qué temas te gustaría debatir?

Ser mujer en un mundo que no siempre te apoya no es sólo difícil… ¡es brutal! Y no, no es drama ni victimismo. Es una realidad que marca cada oportunidad (o falta de ella) que tenemos. 🚫✨

Cuando tienes apoyo, algunas barreras se vuelven menos pesadas. Pero si no lo tienes… abrirse camino como mujer puede sentirse casi imposible. 😔

📚 Mi experiencia en la prepa técnica

Durante mi prepa técnica, como parte de los requisitos, teníamos que hacer servicio social.
Fui suplente de un compañero en Multimedios Televisión, donde mi tarea era sencilla: ver los noticieros del Telediario de España, grabarlos y anotar el minuto exacto en que empezaba cada nota. 🎥📝

Todo iba normal… hasta que un día me dijeron:
«Como vamos a empezar a salir a hacer notas, es muy peligroso para una mujer. Necesitamos que alguien más (un hombre) te sustituya.» 🤨

Quizá fue sólo una excusa para correrme… pero igual me dolió. Porque te deja claro que tu género puede ser una barrera, sin importar tus ganas o tu capacidad.

🎙️ Servicio social en Radio Nuevo León: lo que nunca debería pasar

Después hice mi servicio social en Radio Nuevo León.
¿Y adivina qué? Peor aún. Mi jefe (sí, te estoy viendo, Manuel 👀) me decía cosas horribles sobre mi cuerpo. Que si era «caderona», que si esto, que si lo otro… 🤢

Además, me gritaba sin razón y hasta me hacía llorar en la oficina.
Normalicé tanto ese abuso que cuando vi «El diablo viste a la moda», pensé que la protagonista era una quejica. 😓
(Qué fuerte pensar eso, ¿verdad? ¡El abuso no debería ser la norma!)

🔄 Mucho tiempo después… otra “oportunidad” fallida

Pasó mucho tiempo y, aún inocente, seguía confiando en esa persona que había sido mi jefe. Como yo tenía un programa en internet, me animó a hablar con el jefe de noticias para proponerle hacer algo en Multimedios.
Fui muy segura de mí misma: quería hacer reportajes con mi punto de vista, quizá para la página de Multimedios. Víctor me pidió un video de muestra, pero antes me preguntó por mi estado civil. Curioso, pero no lo tomé en cuenta. 🤷‍♀️

Después, Manuel me recomendó con un conocido suyo (que también había sido su asistente y trabajaba en otra área de Multimedios). Me pasó sus datos y quedé con él para platicarle mi idea: qué tipo de reportajes quería y cómo haría el demo para mostrárselo a Víctor.
Quedamos en que su “costo” sería una cena conmigo. Para evadirlo, le pedí su presupuesto escrito; resultó que, por grabar y editar algo breve, me cobraba varios miles de pesos… ¡hace casi 10 años! No era tan poco, y estaba claro que su fin era salir conmigo o, si no, cobrarme de más.
Me desilusioné; quizás fui tonta por no buscar otra alternativa, pero en ese momento se me cerró el mundo. 💔

🚫 ¡Ningún jefe debería hacer esto!

Nadie debería pasar por lo que viví. Ningún jefe tiene derecho a:

Hacer comentarios sobre tu cuerpo. 🚫
Gritarte o humillarte. 🚫
Hacerte sentir que por ser mujer no puedes hacer un trabajo. 🚫

Incluso cuando crees que ya has superado lo peor, puede venir otra “oportunidad” que te recuerde lo difícil que es abrirte espacio sin apoyo. Aquella vez en que, confiando en mi propia voz, quise hacer reportajes para Multimedios y me encontré con que mi “pago” era una cena conmigo o una tarifa inflada de miles de pesos… todo porque buscaba una chance. 💔

Todas esas experiencias minan tu autoestima, te cierran puertas y condicionan tu forma de verte en el mundo laboral. Por eso insisto: el abuso no es parte del trabajo. No lo normalices, y jamás dejes de desafiarlo. 💪✨

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The Theoretical Doctor @[email protected] · 2024-06-02 · 01:00 UTC

Being the EPAU (Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit) House Officer – Housemanship Diaries

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EPAU of the Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit is like working in a clinic. Before I begin, allow me to express how much I absolutely love it when I am allocated as the “EPAU House Officer” for the day.

The hospital that I am practicing in is Hospital Umum Sarawak otherwise known as Sarawak General Hospital.

The working hours as an EPAU HO is from 8am till 5pm, with a lunch break from 12pm till 2pm. This is then followed by the continuation of work from 2pm till about 5pm.

Most of the cases seen here are patients who go for follow up most likely due to foetal growth restriction (FGR) or cases referred from Klinik Kesihatan. There are some cases whereby the gestation is yet to be seen in utero likely because it is too early but the pregnancy test appears positive, hence they are on follow up for scan of gestational viability after a week or two. In terms of gynae cases, most of the patients that come in are impending miscarriages or patients who have miscarriage but are on follow up to check on their B-hCG.

As an EPAU house officer, our duty is to first screen through the cases that comes in. As I mentioned before, some cases are referred while some are on follow-up.

Thus, we will screen through by writing their age followed by their gestation and parity and finally, any relevant antenatal history.

After we are done screening, we help out with writing the scan findings, calling the patients or helping to take bloods.

There’s not much that needs to be done actually but on certain days whereby the patient load is tremendous, it can get extremely busy.

However, being an EPAU house officer is a good experience and a good change of scene especially if you’ve been allocated to the ward always.

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