Dandelion

Halo! Lama banget ga update blog tau-tau udah akhir tahun aja. Alhamdulillah tsumma Alhamdulillah, beberapa bulan yang lalu saya berhasil mendapatkan beasiswa dari pemerintah Australia melalui skema Australia Awards Scholarship (AAS) dan In shaa Allah akan melanjutkan pendidikan S2, Master of Public Health di The University of Melbourne. Jadi, mau sedikit berbagi cerita ya! Kenapa ngelanjutin S2? It might sounds cliché, tapi berasal dari pengalaman sebagai mahasiswa kedokteran dan penyedia layanan kesehatan, saya menyadari bahwa pelayanan yang saya berikan sangat dipengaruhi oleh berbagai kebijakan kesehatan, dan meningkatkan kesehatan di hilir saja dengan mengobati pasien yang sakit tidaklah cukup jika target kita adalah meningkatkan taraf kesehatan rakyat. Sewaktu magang sebagai asisten peneliti di PKMK FK UGM saya menyadari bahwa kemampuan saya masih kurang, ada disparitas ilmu pengetahuan terkait public health yang saya miliki. Terutama mengingat p...

Hello! I know writing about 2018 in 2019 is such a party popper thing to do, but I have been having stuffs to do ever since Christmas and only have the quiet time now, so let me. Hahahaha. Two days before Christmas a friend asked me if I want to join him for this short getaway at Morella, a quite, small bay with our friends, and I said yes because it was after my shift and I will be having two days off. Yet, post the rare-24-hours-sleepless-shift I fell asleep and thought that they had been leaving so bye bye getaway. But turns out, my friend has this job stuffs coming and had not yet left. So, the three of us; me, Irsyad and Umi (I’ll tell you about this hilarious girl later) took the two hours drive after Maghrib. The place located in Morella, specifically in a small bay called Lubang Buaya. It consisted of several cottages operated by the locals, and ours was in the corner of the bay. The cottage including a small room with an open dock overviewing the sea. Unlik...

Disclaimer: Not all of the details will be written as to respect the patient. “To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always” – It is what a doctor’s main responsibility. I remember that sacred line by Dr. Edward Trudeau said by my lecturers back in med-school and for six years I have been repeatedly told about it, that the sentence engraved within my sub-consciousness yet my willingness to cure overweight my judgment to comfort that night. It was around 7.30 PM when a nurse called me to the ward to check on a patient. She had dyspnea, her breathing was not optimal and although we gave the supplementary oxygen and her SpO2 was 96% I knew something was wrong. The next two hours I found myself sweating from going back and forth to the ER and the ward because oddly our ER that used to be quiet had other patients waiting to see me including another one with dyspnea and as I went to the ward to check on her, her GCS is fastly dropping. I called the family, h...

“Satu biji durian itu 57 kalori loh” ujar seorang teman mengingatkan via DM Instagram beberapa hari sebelum saya menghabiskan sekitar 1500 kalori king of fruit ini di Hutumuri. Siang itu jumat 6 April, saya sedang iseng jalan-jalan sendirian ke daerah Waiheru-Passo dan ga sengaja ngeliat banner bertuliskan “Festival Durian Hutumuri, 7 April 2018” Hah? Festival apa? Sebagai manusia yang lemah terhadap durian, teman-teman internship di grup Whatsapp saya kabari dengan segara dan kami lalu bersepakat, nanti setelah maghrib saya akan ngecek tiketnya dulu ke Ambon City Center lalu tandjap kita besok harinya. Ternyata begitu sampai di ACC, jreng. Loket tiketnya udah tutup. Apa-apan??! Hahaha tapi hidup mewajibkan untuk tidak mudah berputus asa punya kenalan (thanks Ninikski) dan akhirnya dapat info kalau masih boleh beli tiket on the spot . Paginya formasi yang awalnya akan berangkat berempat jadi tinggal bertiga wanita karena ada yang harus jaga IGD pagi, okelah tentu yang...

Hi! A bit update will do no harm, I suppose… So, I am doing my second month of internship here in Ambon. It was shocking how time flied yet I have not done anything worth mentioning (read : I am all the time having fun by myself a.k.a napping). How’s Ambon? I will start with : Hot, literally. I am most certain that the word I used the most while being here is “PANAS” but I can’t help it. Ambon, located in the eastern and surrounded by the sea is the good reason for its stabbing sunlight and its extremely moist temperature that resulting in me being basically drenched in sweat every single day. So I basically need an anti-dotum (and a bathroom scale as its consequence) The story of how I ended up with the hospital I am now in was a bit drama. I have decided that I don’t want Jogja for internship although of course the opportunity for side-job or seminar and other stuffs are better there. But no, Maluku it is. So, I skipped my chance at the first day where...