The other day, I encountered an uncommon medical diagnosis, abdominal epilepsy. Maybe I was absent when this was taught in med school or maybe it was mentioned but it just didn't register in my memory bank. Anyway, for those colleagues who haven't heard of this as well, here's what I found out about it, so that next time you are faced with a weird abdominal pain, you will think of abdominal epilepsy as a differential. There are many medical causes of abdominal pain; abdominal epilepsy is one of the rare causes. From a medical perspective, the term epilepsy refers not to a single disease, but to a group of symptoms with numerous causes. The common factor in all forms of epilepsy is an excessive electrical excitability of the brain. The increased excitation is called a seizure and may manifest as a partial or total loss of consciousness and muscle spasms or other involuntary movements. Many conditions can produce epilepsy. For example, a genetic predisposition is
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A co-worker who came from the Philippines recently gave me one of those posters and it now hangs in my office. It reminded me of that one Christmas that we as a class celebrated with the kids in Ermita.
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that was quite an unforgettable christmas, wasn't it? sana maulit natin yon someday.
Rio
Why not, maybe someday. Let's pool our resources (time, talent, and money)together and surely we will make a great difference. In fact, here in the US, we founded the Annak ti Paoay Foundation, Inc. which aims to help and exend assistance to poor people in the Philippines especially our hometown Paoay. I invite you to become a member since you have your roots from Paoay too. Maybe someday, we will need your help in providing medical and dental mission in there. You can log in our website at paoay.com. I hope you could be a part of this.
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Rio