Arte Y Pico Award

i think i better stop delaying putting up this post, otherwise the referrals i have to make will get taken up by others! 

so yea! this is my first “blogging” award! The “Arte y pico” award. 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Oystein, a Norwegian videographer for picking me! Here’s what he thought of my blog: 

Monash Medical Student. Dedication is the word for this blog of Singaporean medical student Jeffrey Leow, currently residing down under. We share the interest in surgery and running, both of which he writes brilliantly about. Jeffrey is also the creator of the only surgical blog carnival - SurgeXperiences.

I’m extremely honored that he picked me. The rules of this award are as follows:

1. You have to pick five blogs that you consider deserve this award in terms of creativity, design, interesting material, and general contributions to the blogger community, no matter what language.
2. Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3. Each winner has to show the award and give the name and link to the blog that has given him or her the award itself.
4. Each winner and each giver of the prize has to show the link of “Arte y pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.
5. To show these rules.

These are my picks: (in no order of merit)

Made a difference for that one: A surgeon’s letters home from Iraq

This is the blog of LTC (Dr) Christopher Coppola from the USA Air Force. He recently served in Iraq and some of his articles got noted by the media and he got a big bump in traffic. His wife also compiled his letters home into a book.

He still updates his blog with Iraqi news from time to time and this is surely a blog you would want to check the archives for a good read. His dedication to his profession and compassion for the Iraqis are commendable and he shows a version of the war over in Iraq that no journalist or reporter has brought.

Street Anatomy

Blog of Vanessa Ruiz, currently a graduate student in Biomedical Visualization at the University of Illinois at Chicago, one of the few medical illustration programs in the nation. Hop on over for a visual treat to medical illustrations and great pictures. E.g.

Unbounded Medicine 

Dr Jon Mikel Iñarritu-Castro is this blog’s author. He is quite busy nowadays with his urology residency and hence has not updated for a while. But when he used to, it was great stuff. Always the most interesting surgical related news and pictures. Gory images are not excluded. I hope he starts to blog again some time soon. Maybe this award will remind him that he is missed. 

Cut on the dotted line

i cannot believe no one mentioned Dr Alice’s blog yet. she is a surgical resident (PGY2) in the USA. she frankly recounts her days in her work place and could very well be like the next Barbados Butterfly kind of person. the content of her blog is reflective and thoughtful. i enjoy reading them. she shares a similar reformed Christian faith with me, so that is something i appreciate.

Aggravated DocSurg

Aggravated DocSurg pens great articles, littered with humour, aggravation and sarcasm. Always interesting to read. He hosted SurgeXperiences once for me, and he created an extremely creative edition entitled “Snow White and the 7 Surgeons.” Fantastico. Speaks vehemently about issues like the 80hr work week limits, and JCAHO (in a funny mocking pc-vs-mac way)