Another productive day..
Short, yet productive in the hospital. It was only half day, and officially granted by Miss Sweetland. I was shocked when she said it's best to get focused teaching, and then go off at noon and spend the day reading about it. I always thought she was those Consultants who will come after your neck if you didn't stay till 5pm.
She contacted the Vascular surgical team to give me and Sophie teaching sessions today. The Vascular team was having a massive ward round, and it's pretty pointless having us around on the rounds, so the Registrar gave us patients to clerk, and saying that they've got really good signs. It's gonna be a "mini test" for both of us.
So off we went to clerk the patients, and oh boy was it good! Went back to see the guy with the aortic aneurysm, and another guy with chronic leg ischaemia. Definitely both ends of the spectrum for vascular problems. Sophie and I were giving each other a mini exam, but grinding and being critical when the other person's doing an examination, like asking questions for every particular sign that we're examining for, which was kinda helpful in a way. Gives you the confidence and makes you think as you're doing stuffs as well.
Had to present the cases individually to the Registrar. She's a nice lady. I am EXTREMELY surprised with the surgical teams in this hospital. The surgical teams I used to know had loads of attitudes, and Registrars are the biggest pain (they either ar e a bigger pain to me than the Consultants, or just slightly better). I've always thought it was an ego issue, but hey, the teams I meet this time round are way too different. Perhaps their attitude and treatment made me see things differently over these 2 days. I am more motivated to learn, and found stuffs interesting. Learnt a lot too. This Registrar was so kind enough to photocopy the whole chapter of a book about Vascular problems to us. It was a book she highly recommended. I borrowed it from the library yesterday because it's got tons of pictures in it. Was reading about the author just now, and sheesh..he's a BIG shot manz. Ex-president of the Royal College of Surgeons! I didn't get bored reading the book either. Very interestingly written, but due to lack of time, I haven't finish reading the whole chapter yet (it's quite a number of pages). Had to read through the notes I've written up for communication skills tmr.
I must have been terribly exhausted this evening as well. Couldn't keep my eyes open and ended up going into deeeeeep slp for about 2 hours! It was a pain getting up when I realised it was close to 9pm...I just hate it whenever I have to drag myself out of bed when I'm still feeling so tired and sleepy. I'm alright now though.
Oh, I won a bidding for a wallet over ebay! Can't wait to receive it in my mailbox. Always wanted to buy a LV wallet, but it's way tooooo expensive. Some Christian Dior ones caught my eye, but I didn't wanna go for a cloth materialed one, and the one which I fancied was made of white leather (easy to get dirty). Didn't bid for any in the end, but ended up bidding for a pink wallet from Japan. It's damn cute and sweet. :)
Received an email to say that the book I ordered (Sophie's recommendation) has been dispatched. Gosh, I wonder how long it's gonna take to arrive. I hope it'll arrive before the weekend so that I can look through it and do some intensive revision (I hope) over the weekend.
Aiyo..spent so much money over the wallet and book, and I was planning to cut costs by dining out lesser this month, but just when I was supposed to be doing so, I ended up having a 2 course lunch alone at an Italian restaurant in town. BAH! Then again, I miss pasta so much (despite having so much spag bolognese), especially the ones in this restaurant called Ask. I shall go there for dinner one night. Shall find a day with an excuse to have a nice dinner. It'll be best if there's a nice movie to go along, but nowadays..no good shows leh! -.-
I don't have to be in hospital early tmr..yay! What should I do now? More studying? Hmm...or should I happily go watch korean drama again? Read Sun Tze? So exciting..so many choices..which should I go for?
She contacted the Vascular surgical team to give me and Sophie teaching sessions today. The Vascular team was having a massive ward round, and it's pretty pointless having us around on the rounds, so the Registrar gave us patients to clerk, and saying that they've got really good signs. It's gonna be a "mini test" for both of us.
So off we went to clerk the patients, and oh boy was it good! Went back to see the guy with the aortic aneurysm, and another guy with chronic leg ischaemia. Definitely both ends of the spectrum for vascular problems. Sophie and I were giving each other a mini exam, but grinding and being critical when the other person's doing an examination, like asking questions for every particular sign that we're examining for, which was kinda helpful in a way. Gives you the confidence and makes you think as you're doing stuffs as well.
Had to present the cases individually to the Registrar. She's a nice lady. I am EXTREMELY surprised with the surgical teams in this hospital. The surgical teams I used to know had loads of attitudes, and Registrars are the biggest pain (they either ar e a bigger pain to me than the Consultants, or just slightly better). I've always thought it was an ego issue, but hey, the teams I meet this time round are way too different. Perhaps their attitude and treatment made me see things differently over these 2 days. I am more motivated to learn, and found stuffs interesting. Learnt a lot too. This Registrar was so kind enough to photocopy the whole chapter of a book about Vascular problems to us. It was a book she highly recommended. I borrowed it from the library yesterday because it's got tons of pictures in it. Was reading about the author just now, and sheesh..he's a BIG shot manz. Ex-president of the Royal College of Surgeons! I didn't get bored reading the book either. Very interestingly written, but due to lack of time, I haven't finish reading the whole chapter yet (it's quite a number of pages). Had to read through the notes I've written up for communication skills tmr.
I must have been terribly exhausted this evening as well. Couldn't keep my eyes open and ended up going into deeeeeep slp for about 2 hours! It was a pain getting up when I realised it was close to 9pm...I just hate it whenever I have to drag myself out of bed when I'm still feeling so tired and sleepy. I'm alright now though.
Oh, I won a bidding for a wallet over ebay! Can't wait to receive it in my mailbox. Always wanted to buy a LV wallet, but it's way tooooo expensive. Some Christian Dior ones caught my eye, but I didn't wanna go for a cloth materialed one, and the one which I fancied was made of white leather (easy to get dirty). Didn't bid for any in the end, but ended up bidding for a pink wallet from Japan. It's damn cute and sweet. :)
Received an email to say that the book I ordered (Sophie's recommendation) has been dispatched. Gosh, I wonder how long it's gonna take to arrive. I hope it'll arrive before the weekend so that I can look through it and do some intensive revision (I hope) over the weekend.
Aiyo..spent so much money over the wallet and book, and I was planning to cut costs by dining out lesser this month, but just when I was supposed to be doing so, I ended up having a 2 course lunch alone at an Italian restaurant in town. BAH! Then again, I miss pasta so much (despite having so much spag bolognese), especially the ones in this restaurant called Ask. I shall go there for dinner one night. Shall find a day with an excuse to have a nice dinner. It'll be best if there's a nice movie to go along, but nowadays..no good shows leh! -.-
I don't have to be in hospital early tmr..yay! What should I do now? More studying? Hmm...or should I happily go watch korean drama again? Read Sun Tze? So exciting..so many choices..which should I go for?
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