Zero Mella MD Releases First E-book about Filipino Medical Myths

Now available via Lulu Publishing! For only $ 3.99
Learn about bizarre Filipino Medical Myths and the science to debunk it

Olongapo City, Philippines – Dr. Zero Mella debuts in writing with his first literary piece, Filipino Medical Myths You Should Know: A Legacy of Wrong Medical Advices. This eBook features 11 chapters of entertaining medical nuisances that Filipino Doctors hear almost everyday. He attempts to explain the theories behind the myth and declares the sound scientific evidence that disputes it.

Filipino Myth 1: Coca-Cola can cause Urinary Tract Infection

This is one of the  most common medical myth today. Brought about by scares that Coke is bad for your health, Filipinos tend to not only avoid the drink but others as well.Find out why this myth is absurd by medical standards.

Filipino Myth 2: You’ll get  appendicitis when you jump after eating

He calls them non-surgeons, physicians who try to explain events leading to appendicitis after jumping with a full stomach. Surgeons know better, find out why!

Filipino Myth 3: The Great Pasma Myth

Ever wondered what is PASMA? With various modern definitions for it, some people have lost the true meaning of the word. But is it real. Dr. Mella says NO!

Find out more with this book from Lulu Publishing and the Mella eBook company!

*The book is available in the popular ePub format which
 can be read in various PC and smartphone readers.
* ISBN 978-1-105-60708-0

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 13,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2010. That’s about 4 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 9 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 38 posts. There were 11 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 2mb. That’s about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was December 10th with 35 views. The most popular post that day was 200% Customs Tax, Only in the Philippines!.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were yugatech.com, bigextracash.com, facebook.com, goftp.com, and digg.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for bioflu, bioflu side effects, risk of hypertension, bpi trade, and vasovagal syncope and hyperventilation.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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200% Customs Tax, Only in the Philippines! March 2010
22 comments

2

Warning: Bioflu should not be used every 4 hours!!! October 2010

3

Case Studies: Vasovagal Syncope and Hyperventilation Syndrome October 2009
3 comments

4

Welcome to Zero MD! May 2010

5

ALFM Peso Bond Fund Inquiry October 2009

Migrating to WordPress

Zero Mella MD

I’ve finally closed my blogger accounts. Migrating to WordPress has been a tough choice. I have been accustomed to Blogger’s ease of use for years. Although I had the chance to import the posts, I preferred not to instead. I want to write starting from scratch again.

WordPress seems to be the best medium for blogging. It has superior features. As I browse through my favorite blog reads, I see that most of them, if not all, are using WordPress.

I’m going to be adding mixed content on this blog so I suggest you use the tags I will be placing if you want to browse my entries. I will be adding medical updates, surgical updates, medical case studies, and if possible, medical training videos. This will be my contribution to my line of work. By trade, I have done Flash and ActionScript programming in the past. Since most were freelance with very little pay, it’s not very high tech and since I don’t have a personal computer, most were destroyed. I want to work on a lot of stuffs using Flash and possibly launch my own API. Since there’s a new version of ActionScript, it’s going to be fun learning about programming again. I heard they made 3D tweens much more easy. Also, since I am also getting into Investing, I would be continuing to write about what I had been ranting recently in blogspot: the Zero MD Fund. I will be renaming this project as “Project Alpha.

As to the time of writing this entry, 100+ Filipinos were reported dead on the flash floods that ravaged Manila. I thank God that none of my relatives were hurt but I also pray for those who were hit hard.