I won praises today!!!!!
Makes me feel really good :) And of course, made me feel much much better since I'm been so slack over the past 2 weeks, I felt like as if I am a walking idiot in a whitecoat in hospital.
Decided to go to A&E since I definitely gotta make myself clerk patients for my write up case study and woohoo..I got a patient immediately without having to wait.
Since the doctors have not seen her yet, I was the first to see her and hence, I have the honour (or rather I thought I'll do the doctor on call a favour) by doing all his/her clerking paperwork for him/her.
It's been a long time since I last gotta do proper adult medicine, and it did feel a bit odd having to examine adults from scratch. But I'm glad I haven't gone totally rusty yet.
It did scare me a little when the doctor on call finally came, took the necessary documents and was handed the paperwork I have already completed.
Doc: What? The patient has already been clerked? By who?!
Nurse: This medical student just came and went to see the patient.
Doc: *looks at me* Did you write these up? U're a medical student aren't u?
Me: Yes..
Doc: *looks at me and pause for a bit* Look...you're a star. Can you please stay with me the whole day? I'll be really happy to have u around to do my job.
Phew..I thought he was gonna tell me off and ask me to bugger off, or say I'm not licensed to do his job etc.
He praised my handwriting and said my clerking, diagnosis and management plan was almost flawless. He even queried if I got the Dean's list! Gosh!!! And when one of my coursemates came to clerk patients, he said "Your friend here is the best medical student I've seen. You really gotta work terribly hard to reach her level." That was a real ego booster. Anyway, it wouldn't be me who would qualify to go for a Dean's list viva. I wouldn't mind being chosen to go for it though...even if I fail to get it....lol. Passing is good enough for me. I shan't be toooo greedy despite day dreaming.
I was glad that I got the emergency procedures and management right, and it was really cool to watch the doctor carrying out the plan I had written up for the patient.
I had the chance to present it to the A&E Consultant too, and he did praise me for doing really well. It's such a pity that it isn't MY Consultant whom I'm presenting it to. I do wish that I could get some praises from him, since I couldn't answer some questions which he asked me for the past 2 weeks and it's making me worry a little if he thinks I'm dumb. He digs into all the physics like Ohm's law and pressure etc, and although those physic terms sound familiar, that dates to my days back in JC...which is like hello....6 yrs ago? And he goes on and on, and I'm always lost.
Alright, enuff boasting abt myself. Shall start to do some revision, but shit manz...very tired and sleepy....
Makes me feel really good :) And of course, made me feel much much better since I'm been so slack over the past 2 weeks, I felt like as if I am a walking idiot in a whitecoat in hospital.
Decided to go to A&E since I definitely gotta make myself clerk patients for my write up case study and woohoo..I got a patient immediately without having to wait.
Since the doctors have not seen her yet, I was the first to see her and hence, I have the honour (or rather I thought I'll do the doctor on call a favour) by doing all his/her clerking paperwork for him/her.
It's been a long time since I last gotta do proper adult medicine, and it did feel a bit odd having to examine adults from scratch. But I'm glad I haven't gone totally rusty yet.
It did scare me a little when the doctor on call finally came, took the necessary documents and was handed the paperwork I have already completed.
Doc: What? The patient has already been clerked? By who?!
Nurse: This medical student just came and went to see the patient.
Doc: *looks at me* Did you write these up? U're a medical student aren't u?
Me: Yes..
Doc: *looks at me and pause for a bit* Look...you're a star. Can you please stay with me the whole day? I'll be really happy to have u around to do my job.
Phew..I thought he was gonna tell me off and ask me to bugger off, or say I'm not licensed to do his job etc.
He praised my handwriting and said my clerking, diagnosis and management plan was almost flawless. He even queried if I got the Dean's list! Gosh!!! And when one of my coursemates came to clerk patients, he said "Your friend here is the best medical student I've seen. You really gotta work terribly hard to reach her level." That was a real ego booster. Anyway, it wouldn't be me who would qualify to go for a Dean's list viva. I wouldn't mind being chosen to go for it though...even if I fail to get it....lol. Passing is good enough for me. I shan't be toooo greedy despite day dreaming.
I was glad that I got the emergency procedures and management right, and it was really cool to watch the doctor carrying out the plan I had written up for the patient.
I had the chance to present it to the A&E Consultant too, and he did praise me for doing really well. It's such a pity that it isn't MY Consultant whom I'm presenting it to. I do wish that I could get some praises from him, since I couldn't answer some questions which he asked me for the past 2 weeks and it's making me worry a little if he thinks I'm dumb. He digs into all the physics like Ohm's law and pressure etc, and although those physic terms sound familiar, that dates to my days back in JC...which is like hello....6 yrs ago? And he goes on and on, and I'm always lost.
Alright, enuff boasting abt myself. Shall start to do some revision, but shit manz...very tired and sleepy....
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