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Friday, January 27, 2006
What an eventful fortnight. I am sure my group members would agree with me. We are indeed blessed. HAHA!
It all started first at the psychiatry ward..
Stepped into the male ward, and then out of no where, this guy came forward and pull a chair to where we were sitting.. "I volunteer to be interview. My file is 03. Come la.. I wanna be interviewed." Oh-kay. Such enthusiasm.
Surely the haloperidol did not exert it's side effects on him.
Then was the ward rounds.. in came the consultant.. the 1.5 hours would probably be the longest in my life! Never felt so stressed! CNS was like 3 semesters ago.. So remembered nothing when he asked about quetiapine.
All of us coincidentaly were assigned to clerk female patients so we headed off to the female ward situated deeper into the psychi ward.
"What are you all doing here? I tell you, you are a bunch of useless people. $%#$. Show me your IC! Show me your IC! %%$^&" the shrill voice just gets higher n higher in pitch as the patient got angier.
Then came bipolar lady all wet from the toilet looking distress. Turned around and whoa.. a striptease.
As shrill lady continued to accuse us for i-dunno-what and kept demanding for our IC, another lady shouted and asked her to stop screeching. That was the que.. The whole ward started shouting.
Concentrate on case notes, Charis..
Bipolar lady, mumbling to herself marches to the sink with a mirror. Looked into the mirror and started scratching her head. Then, suddenly and immediately she started crying and wailing. Marches back to bed. Lie down, stopped crying instantly and continues to mumble. After an hour or so, it happened all over again.
Shouting begins again and JT's patient "They are so noisy, I can't be holy"
Since we were in the female ward, the guys generally had better treatment from the patients.
"Hi, I like your tie, i like your face.. you are so handsome. I'm from NTV7, i want to interview you." Patient gives a look of admiration..
It was an experience and your heart goes out to these patients because of their condition. It's sad to learn what makes them come to this point. That was Day 1.
Day 2. Was supposed to present the case to the consultant. There I was, clutching the BNF and sweating profusely. and then.. we found out he couldn't make it!!!! Hoorah! Great escape #1
Next was Dermatology clerkship.
Escaped the grand ward round by the head of the department... she's away!! Hoorah! Great escape #2!
So all in all, we escaped with only minor scratches... no bullet holes! Phew..
Haha.. Now don't be jealous.. I know, it's good enough to escape one but two altoghether?!? Unbelievable!
posted by Charis at 4:09:00 pm
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Monday, January 09, 2006
2006.. How fast time flies. Just not too long ago, people were freaking out about whether the Millenium bug will bite or swallow you whole, and now it's half a decade past that already. Amazing.
No, no.. this is no resolution post.. Nobody keeps it, so why make it?
I guess it's a time to reflect eh?
Well, 2005 was pretty eventful. Let's see..
Of course.. first, set up this bloggy..
to document (ahem!) the final days of my life as a student which I forsee I will sorely miss.
Am absolutely done with organic chemistry and labs! (or so I thought..)
I mean who cares about those pyramidine rings, anthracene moiety, sulphones and those shapes? I for one don't. I assume life would be much more easier now when I don't have to memorise those drawings the morning before entering the exam hall and then to re-draw it a few hours later. I didn't know the brain can actually remember drawings (in detail)!!
And no more labs! Those long dreadful, time consuming lab sessions are just not effective in teaching me. I learnt nothing mostly. All I know is that I have to finish it FAST. Who cares about the results in your report. Everyone alters it anyway.
BUT.. I discovered that I was dead wrong. Cancer Chemo does have organic chem. DARN! and this final sem, they have GMP lab! WHAaaaart?!? (where's my potassium manganate-stained labcoat??)
Discovered I can be a workaholic... a record of 26 working days non-stop *beam* (freak, I know)
I didn't know I could do that.. Hehe.
Rediscovered a long abandoned hobby
Not exactly abandoned, I do it when the exam week kicks in (for a different purpose). I just don't have the time to and those pharmacology books are thick enough to turn it into a phobia. After a 3.5 years hiatus, it's nice to dig into a good ol book and read till the wee hours in the morning.. ahh..
Enter final year...
No more "I don't know the dose" cause you are expected and supposed to know them. But I still don't. I will when exam comes.
First exposure to hospital clerking and all.. Pretty interesting at first. Tiring but rewarding (in the sense that when it's not your group's turn, you get Wed n Thurs off!)
Enter final semester
More hospital. Now it's just clerking at different wards.
First was at Medical Ward. Nice consultant. Threw us a few questions which left us feeling stupid. But he was nice enough to explain to us and ask us to join his ward roundings.
GMP lab! Help me..
Got a nice sprain
Always wonder how it is like and I got my prayers answered.
Strenghtened friendships
I discovered that I am blessed to have friends who geniunely care, are there for me when I needed them, to lift me up when I fall, and most importantly, stand by me throughout. For this, I am grateful and am truly blessed.
Existance of freak of nature
They are REAL!
2006 will be the year that I was waiting for for the last 3.5 years. Now that it is here, I am not exactly looking forward to it especially come the month of May where I'll finish the final exam of my schooling life and things will take a dramatic change. Everyone will part their ways after being classmates for 4 years.. No more classes, no more lectures, no more assigments, no more reports, heck, no more labs.. basically, no more a student. I don't like that thought.
Anyway, I am sleepy so I'll just shut up.. for now.
posted by Charis at 1:35:00 am
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