Quick update 2011
Hi everyone! Thanks for dropping by once again.
Sorry I havent been able to post for so long.
The main reason i want to post this is to appreciate the great many readers I had and more importantly the great many surgeon bloggers who supported the surgical blog carnival i tried to get going — SurgeXperiences. unfortunately, with me starting my PGY-1 internship, i have had little time to maintain this and had to forgo this. also, it was difficult to get hosts each fortnight. so slowly but surely it dwindled and is no longer really functional. i wnat to acknowledge many – esp Bongi and Ramona, but also others like Aggravated DocSurg, Anesthesioboist (still can’t spell that), Reflections in a Head Mirror (Dr Bruce Campbell), Buckeye Surgeon (Dr Jeffrey Parks), Surgeonsblog (Dr Sidney Schwab), Inside Surgery, Dr Chris Coppola, Papermask (Aussie surgeon), Cut on the Dotted Line (Dr Alice), Unbounded Medicine, Scalpel’s Edge (Dr Cris), etc. All who hosted – thanks for taking the time to put together the articles. Hope it brought u some fun and entertainment whilst doing so, — and also brought you some blog/internet traffic.
I must say my retirement from blogging is not because I have stopped writing entirely, but in fact i remained active in writing — only in a different form. Traditionally, we have established doctors who used to write in medical journals get fed up and decided to start a blog and write whatever they wanted without peer review. I sort of went the opposite way. I used to blog, now i try to write and get published. So far i have got 12 accepted papers, including a recent high profile Archives of Surgery commentary entitled “A President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief for Surgery: A Call to Action for Surgical Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.” (PDF AVAILABLE in LINK)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21930994
You can easily pubmed me as “Jeffrey Leow” and you can see my work.
I am currently doing my surgical posting during my 1-year housemanship. I will be applying for surgical residency in Singapore, and continue to be very interested in surgery in developing countries, as such the focus of most of my published work.
I am intending to go to Tanzania in March-April 2012 for a surgical mission and survey of the district hospitals. In addition, in Nov 2011, I am going to San Diego for a global surgery conference entitled ASAP Meeting — more details: http://cme.ucsd.edu/asap/
It’s more of really an excuse to go to the USA and get MOHH to sponsor me to go — and i have to present an abstract on cancer surgery in Malawi. Making that poster now..
Thanks for following and have a good one. I will probably update this blog as i embark on those 2 upcoming journeys. But you know, facebook is kinda easier.
