surely surgery!

it's been 2 days worth of feeling lost.

haven't been up to much, since the scrub tute by the nurses are held tmr morning. so i guess after that we can start roaming around and checking more things out. apparently we don't even have to ask anyone if we can scrub in. just appear and be ready 10mins before the scheduled time and say hi to the surgeon.

Haha, i could get used to this. that's the good bit about small and faraway hospitals. everyone is so friendly and accommodating towards the students.

registrar handover was today, so the surgical teams were in a mess, no one knows for sure who is staying on their team and stuff. so they sent us home. at 11.30AM! tomorrow, they promised, we will have reg and consultants for you. ok we said. and home we headed.

but it's been tiring. i tell you its the waking up at 5.45 for 7ish ward rounds.

and they sent us off to read weird stuff like varicocele and hernias. shouldn't we start with sth more 'normal' like.. i dunno.

we are going to work very hard tmr! 6 of us promised one another. interview patients! go for outpatients! and scrub in on surgeries! do takes! (yah right)...

meanwhile... back to weird readings.

PS: i catch lifts from my friend, Kerri-Anne. She's so nice to drive via the city to pick Cynthia and I up in the mornings and deliver me back to the city in the afternoons. So no buses yet :) I am so so thankful!

rantings

for the people who are not interested in my crappy life... just move on to the next entry. it has pretty pics.

i just feel as though the MLTU, for one reason or another, actually knows who i dislike working with in med or something. every single freaking rotation i get this year, i have someone i have major issues with in the same group as me.

ok except acute and chronic care coz i have hams. and psych coz i have ian wu.

going to start my first rotation at lyell mac. for the non-adelaideans.. it's a hosp that is light years away from the city. i fear for myself if i have to stay late in the hosp or do takes. argh. ok im exaggerating. its about 1.5 hours by bus. but adelaide isn't the safest place on earth at night. so there.

den there's the issue of dinners (who's cooking? who will have time to buy groceries?) and the issue of meeting up and making time for vic. not a pretty sight ahead folks.

the only thing i can sorta take comfort in is the fact that for surgical home i only have like 6 people in total in my group. i guess the consultant or whoever will be able to reach out to everyone more easily? i dunno. im just making stuff up to comfort myself.

9 weeks! argh. if i ever survive and pass the freaking 9 weeks! i am so dreading school.
9 weeks is like.. 5X9 = 45 days. minus one public hol.... 44 mornings!

and i only see my other friends once a week during common program. boo hoo!

more london for the interested

tower of london where they keep the crown jewels :)

windsor palace? princess diana used to stay here.

gold plated gate

some royal something. shit im bad with names

us! in the parks.

mutant fat geese running loose

nut-loving squirrel enjoying our treat

on a walk around the city. tower bridge in the background

condolences

some london pics for you guys to see. it's actually a very random selection.. which i intend to enlarge when the blogger allows me to load more pics. it's behaving strangely tonight.

anyway. i met up with hong and ian today for dinner. was the usual talk and laughing, casual without being too superficial sort of chatting that you just cant ever get tired of.

time really does wait for no man.

we have all moved on in vastly different directions in life. some of us are still studying, some of us are going to start working soon, some of us got married, some of us still don't know what to do with our lives. we will no longer be the immature, fun-loving kids who were happy sitting in class and idle our time away with laughter and jokes.

and i just want to say that i've been deeply saddened by the news that our bio tutor in njc, Mrs Che, passed away a while ago. I only heard of the news a week back but it's just so scary. she was a wonderful tutor who was passionate about the subject and devoted to teaching. she was motherly, nice and very patient. she was always full of smiles and twinkly eyes.

the world has suffered a great loss, and may she rest in peace.

london thru my eyes

us outside the ice skating place at tower of london

london eye (on a gloomy day)

tower of london at sunset

tower bridge at sunset

say hi to the queen! outside st paul's cathedral

the painted hall. at the royal something museum.

the ceiling in detail

view from the royal observatory

buskers at covent garden

helping each other

happy us!

life in the gastro ward

top 5 qns patients get asked by nosy but caring doctors in Gastro.
1. Any vomiting? (amount, relation to food, contents - food, bile, blah blah, any blood present)
2. Any problems with ur stools? (colour, any blood, amount, consistency, frequency)
3. Any abdominal pain? (where, when, how, ...)
4. Any weight loss/tiredness/fatigue experienced recently?
5. Ate anything in particular or travelled out of singapore? (top of the list: clams in cha kway teow, 'lamak' food, trips to bangkok etc)

top 3 coolest groups in Gastro
1. Patients who exhibit an inability to maintain intrinsic muscle tone, ie the hepatic flappers
2. Patients with distended bellies ie: the ascites troop
3. The gallstones gang - they keep coming back to remove more stones.

it's been too long!

i realised hardly anyone updates their blogs regularly these days.

i've been away from the blogsphere for a tad too long. not sure how or where to start writing. london? fidel's wedding? thing at sgh? my personal view of the world?