venerdì, luglio 30, 2004
:: Prof Low's wisdom ::Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (excerpt)
Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
—Thomas Gray
This is really a beautiful n meaningful quote rite? hehe... all understand? hehe...
lunedì, luglio 26, 2004
:: night duty ::hmmm though i gave up one sunday for night duty, it was REALLY worth it! quite fun n exciting but tiring...
the good thing abt night duty on sunday is that i got to see all the new admissions over the weekend (before they get clerked to 'death' on Monday)... yeah... i saw a case of significant PR bleeding, diverticular disease, intestinal obstruction... and also experienced how things become when emergencies start to crop up. according to su it's a F up day. probably, poor team 1, i think they didn't get any sleep at all! couple of bad stuff like patients collapsing, taking a turn for the worse, and even deaths. there was an emergency op in the afternoon though, too bad i wasn't there. the new admissions included an old man wif acute pancreatitis, i hope he pulls through! he was in such great respiratory distress.... haiz... and his family and all that... hope he'll stabilise soon then they can start definitive treatment. was also a case of urethritis suspected to be gonoccocal though the pt denies it, he also had a right indirect inguinal hernia! surprisingly, that didn't cause any problems for three whole months! (pretty obvious somemore, i think it's the pubo type)
i got to practise more hokkien since they didn't really speak it... (we were a v multiracial lot yday night... haha) hmmm saw an interesting social part of a casefile, tomorrow i shall go talk to the patient. got to set plug, take blood, saw almost all the procedures we were taught for OSCE done on just one patient! i really learnt a lot yesterday night, not just from active teaching esp fr gurmit & su but also from observing how R communicated with the patient's family and the rest of his staff. i believe this is a skill that must be learnt well.
anyway, to the most 'exciting' part of my stay... first there wasn't a room, normally shld have a duty room in ward 4 but.... someone took it!!!! AHHHHH! but the docs were really nice, when they were free they helped to ask around a bit and finally, heh heh, lucky me got to chk into ward 7 bed 1. private ward leh.... good siah... but... um... other considerations (it's a patient bed lah, who knows what hap before in tt room rite?) i'm supposed to peng4 gui3 before 12midnight yday cuz i stepped on some urine on the ground, but nope i didn't. i was looking out but nah, didn't see nothin'.
ok... and take a deep breath...
i assisted in an operation (omentum used in patch repair for perforated ulcer in d1) woohoooo! previously that night, there was lots of worry and speculation for this patient, (he was originally diagnosed as ARU) this made R pretty upset. cuz... when a person has ARU, have to confirm diagnosis by catheterisation. but it wasn't done previously! so upon catheterisation, found out that he DID NOT have any urine output, obviously this wasn't an ARU case! tsk tsk... scrubbed up in record time, op started at 230am, ended around 4am, was nice of dr g to put my name in the op notes too! i tot i would leave my mark as 'medical student' hehehe but i got sth better. i'm glad that at least they've figured out what was wrong with him. he had so much so much coffee ground aspirate they couldn't even do an OGD! and soooooo much, like a pool of melaena! phew!
i believe there was another op for prolapsed haemorrhoids around 430am or 5am. but anyway R shooed me off to bed.
well, i think that although it was a 'good' night duty for me, it definitely wasn't for the patients. i guess i can't do much to help them directly, but i could offer them some sort of comfort in their convalescence and hope that they recover without sequelae. and of course, i should know their conditions at the back of my hands, i feel it's a sign of appreciation for the privilege that i've been given: to observe, to examine and to assist the docs.
giovedì, luglio 22, 2004
:: utterly concussed ::ooops! i'm so utterly concussed that i mistook my toast as a mug mat and i put my mug full of water on it!
now i'm eating v interesting toast with a deep circular impression on it! ugggs...
:: a horrible feeling in there ::
hmmm suddenly, after three near-to-blissful v interesting weeks in GS, i'm suddenly feeling really sianz, really angry and really like dunno stressed or wat, just feel that i'm not learning enough, don't really feel like staying in the hosp all day, haiz hope i'm not burning out yet. i tot this is a gradual phenomenon, not sudden onset?
grrr... sometimes i think of it, i think despite the fact that i'm in uni now, i'm STILL being treated like a kid... i know my frds in other facs could get into trouble for not going to tuts and lectures... over here, it's not really the case. BUT those pple-up-there (make is just a handful) dun like us leaving the hosp early...
hmmm i think i'll take the view of the majority... (tt is... 1CN, 1 lecturer, 1 SR, 1MO , many HOs) that is, see the important things, study smart, dun stay soo late, go home and rest and revise and read up what you see. yup i totally agree! no use stay till so late, when u get home too tired to absorb liao. haiz... but NOT like i have the choice to choose when to go off mah...
we're supposedly ADULTS but... they wanna do things like spot-chks to see if we're still in hosp?!?! mark attendance at some mass tuts? huh? i think it's stupid lor... if someone doesn't want to go cuz too tired, even if that someone goes for the tut/lecture, wonder what that person actually will absorb?! i'm more in favour of zhi4dong4 then bei4dong4.
there, now that i've blogged what i feel that's soooo not right about our system, i feel much better.
but i think i'll feel even better if i can like shout a bit... currently, i'm itching for a fight.
sabato, luglio 17, 2004
:: two sides to everything ::i found two worms in MY brinjal. one a bad note, simply there are two disgusting slimy worms in MY brinjal, leaving two meandering tunnels and plenty of worm poo. on a good note, maybe i'm taking in less toxic pesticides... cuz if MY brinjal was generously doused in pesticides, NO worm would be able to get in there or even survive (if it was pre-implanted in MY brinjal flower even before fertilisation took place). therefore, as one can see, there are two perspectives to everything in life.
and also, one can also tell that i'm v boh liao at this moment.
giovedì, luglio 15, 2004
:: note ::fri: mengqi n agnes
sat: maybe 'spiderman 2' or 'king arthur'
sun: rot
tue: sanz, mich, liz, laurie
fri: bren, kok kok, adel...
sheesh dun mess up again!
mercoledì, luglio 14, 2004
:: the most BHB person eva! ::chk this out: http://www.anzwers.org/trade/sghunk1976/sghunkweb.html
i wish honest-to-goodness that he'll not win! omg... if he does, i think his over-inflated ego will burst the top off whichever auditorium singapore idol's held in!
PS: i dun get it... Dinner and Dance... the theme is le mafia et ses femmes... erm but how come the emails come with signore and signori and grazie? oooh... some pple in our fac are having SERIOUS confusions... also, mafia refers to the italian one right, got mafia in france?!
:: heh heh ::
i was feeling v down last sunday and v sick as well... anyway to cheer myself up i changed my blogskin (lol, but i'm sure given this degree of pinkness, lulu's gonna make herself sick now)
discovery: i think i'm lactose intolerant, i dunno how when or why cuz i've been taking milk 6 mornings a week for close to 5 years, yet nowadays i get gastro-esophageal reflux almost every morning and recently, i've been getting watery stools 2-3x a day... now reduced to 1x a day if i take milk in the morning. haiz... but i need the CALCIUM! maybe i'll try taking it in the evenings instead. i refuse to accept that i could have become lactose intolerant!
l'auberge espanole: oh cool movie... a bit funny here n there, but i prefered 'el otro lado de la cama'. anyway, there's one joke where the brit girl learnt that le fac (le faculte(dunno how to spell), means the university (in short). so she went around telling pple 'i'm going to 'f*ck' instead. also other funny stuff... mainly due to difference in culture, language and nationality. there was some spanish as well, and super clear, probably cuz those are not native spaniards, so less of the shortforms and slang. muy claro!
today i felt such a great sense of achievement... haha... attended journal club by dr bernie on perianal conditions, then tut by prof low for acute pancreatitis and right after i saw a patient with varicose veins and right venous ulcer, a post-op case of colorectal cancer, a post-op multinodular goitre with complete thyroidectomy, a post-op case of haemorrhoids and made an appointment to see a man with HCC post-op! all this and i left before 1!
giovedì, luglio 08, 2004
:: moi, the disgraceful slacker ::i've been guilty of slacking... cuz i borrowed three vcds over a period of 8days... and have watched two already. ahhh and gone to the movies on tuesday! oops! the first was mona lisa smile, starring julia roberts, and 3 more girls. it's really a meaningful movie! i think that it tells us not to accept our 'role', to accept the 'traditions' that bind us or the expectations that others have of us, but to listen to our heart, to follow what we want. it'll be hard, going against the said 'rules' of one's society, to go against the wishes of those you love and respect, but if you believe in your choice and believe that you will be able to do 'good' with it, then we should pursue our dreams! i do know of a few people whom i hope will do something like this, and not just give in and be too cowardly to fight for their dreams. i would prefer to fight for my dream and fail in it then have never tried to pursue my own dreams!
the next movie's 'el otro lado de la cama' the other side of the bed, spanish film. great one! it's really super funny, ironic in a way, yet witty, some parts can be a little corny, cuz u've got ur actors and actresses breaking out into song and dance! haha... i'm going to get the dvd if i can. can watch it a few more times, it's really a cool comedy. hahah plus all the actors and actresses are so good-looking!
then tonight, i just watched 'hable con ella', talk to her, spanish film again. well i watched this around hmmmm almost a year ago? i can't really rem. but wow, now i suddenly realised, time really flies, it just slips through my hands like sand. too fine to be grasped. yup, hable con ella is also a film worth watching, v artistic and nice music, great choreography. the thing i like about european films (excluding UK) are that they are never direct, rarely do i meet american films that are so subtle, yet so profound. one glance, one scene, one moment of silence, holds so many possibilities so many innsinuations in such films, american films are normally louder, straightforward, all action, huge budget, large fan fare kind of films. great for movies of cuz, but not much for film appreciation.
anyway, i've got one last vcd: spanish apartment, which i missed in the cinemas the last time, i'm bent on watching it! haha after many of my frds have been saying how good it is!
giovedì, luglio 01, 2004
:: Feliz pero Cansada ::Casi ha terminado la primera semana del semestre. Todos los dÃas se tiene que ponerse de pie todo el dÃa, se tiene que hace mucho en el hospital. Es muy fatigoso pero me siento que eso es vale la pena. ¿Por qué? Yo no sé exactamente. Quizás soy el tipo de persona que le gusta el estrés, el movimiento... Quizás es que lo que hago ahora tiene más importancia para mi.
Me gusta mucho este hospital, tiene alrededores bellÃsimos, un ambiente traquilo. Hay muchos árboles y flores, ¡aún una fuente y una estatua de un ángel! Es un lugar perfecto para relajarse, para descansar y para rehabilitar. Es una lástima que no hay muchos pacientes en ello. Casi muchos de los doliente están en dos otros hospitales, los que son más grandes y más ocupados. También, no puedo hablar los lenguajes de muchos de los dolientes. Tengo que aprender más Malayo los más pronto posible. En esta manera, pueda visitar los pacientes malayos también. Hace dos dÃas, me encuentré dos lenguas que nunca las he oÃdo. Son Hock Chiew y Malayama... Interesante, ¿verdad?
Pues, tengo mucho por leer ahora. Me voy...
Me pone muy feliz porque mañana es el viernes, tengo las ganas de descansarme. Además de eso, quiero reunirme con mis amigas el sábado.
!Nos vemos!
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