Random stuffs
I'm loving Medicine all over again. Ever so glad to be back, despite enjoying the company I have in Surgery. In fact, I'm missing my Registrars, fellow House Officers and seniors there. I'm based at the other end of the hospital now, and the only chances are bumping into them is if I have patients referred to them for surgical opinions or if I do bump into them along the common corridor. It's always a happy moment for me when my friends there and I go waving vigorously when we see each other along the long walkway towards the surgical side.
My team's brilliant. Consultant's like the calmest person ever, and he's extremely nice. My SHO (aka MO) and I are great partners. The medical side is definitely much more organised than Surgery, and Medicine makes one think more. On calls are the more interesting days of the week, and I'm enjoying racking my brains for a diagnosis, and analysing results. I'm still not that good in managing patients in terms of adding more potent medications and doing more than basic bits for them, but I'll give myself some time to learn.
I'm actually feeling quite stressed over the fact abt returning to Sg to work in another 6 mths' time. I reckon it'll be a different world in a Sg hospital compared to a UK one. Being a UK grad, I know I wouldn't be accepted immediately into the Sg team...as in your team members would be speculating abt how their new MO (yours sincerely) will be like, and if I am competent enough for the job. Knowing how Sgporeans are like, I wouldn't be surprised if there will a group who would despise me for having grad from a UK med school with a thought that I must be less knowledgeable and less competent, and another who would expect me to be quite good because I was trained in UK (some people think it's prestigious for strange reasons).
I remember when I was still a student and doing a placement in Sg once, one of my MOs I was with was commenting that his house officer takes rubbish histories because he's not from NUS. Honestly, I found that extremely unprofessional, and seriously, I think it is unfair to think every non-NUS grad is the same. It doesn't take a person to grad from Cambridge or Havard to take a brilliant history. Besides, I do not think every NUS med grad takes brilliant histories too. I definitely wasn't impressed seeing some MOs who grad from NUS copying the entire history from a GP's letter, and faking it off like as if he spent 30 mins obtaining those information.
Anyway, being a MO will mean having a HO as my junior for the very first time, and it does add a bit of pressure to me since I'll be expected to be able to give advice to my junior if he/she faces a problem in the ward. I reckon it'll be very embarrassing to say "I don't know" each time I'm being asked a question, looking really stupid and useless in front of my little HO.
Hence, I've been studying a lot recently, but damn it......my ability to retain info has plunged drastically after starting work!!!!! I'm concentrating more on the acute management, rather than the core knowledge since I roughly have a brief idea of the different illnesses now. It's really interesting reading this book I've borrowed from the library and I've been referring to it so much that this new book is actually falling apart now (ooopppsss!). Prefer it so much than the Oxford Handbooks which I've got (hate how squashed up the info is in the Oxford Handbook Series).
One major obstacle now is the sleeping bug. I'm not sure why I've been feeling very tired these days. I'm not someone who sleeps early, but on certain days, I'm actually in bed by 7.30pm. Owain was still teasing me that day, going "Is it past your bedtime now Michelle?" when I was sitting comfortably on his sofa, keeping quiet while looking at him cooking dinner and chopping olives.
Shall try to load myself with Caffeine to keep awake. I have been so sleepy for the last few days that I hardly did any proper studying.
Time to get organised and get my butt down to doing something productive! :)
Oh..and it's Laksa night tmr!!!! Cross fingers that I won't let my friends down tmr! Dearie's feeling kinda jealous that he's not around to taste it....he loves the Laksa I make...lol..
My team's brilliant. Consultant's like the calmest person ever, and he's extremely nice. My SHO (aka MO) and I are great partners. The medical side is definitely much more organised than Surgery, and Medicine makes one think more. On calls are the more interesting days of the week, and I'm enjoying racking my brains for a diagnosis, and analysing results. I'm still not that good in managing patients in terms of adding more potent medications and doing more than basic bits for them, but I'll give myself some time to learn.
I'm actually feeling quite stressed over the fact abt returning to Sg to work in another 6 mths' time. I reckon it'll be a different world in a Sg hospital compared to a UK one. Being a UK grad, I know I wouldn't be accepted immediately into the Sg team...as in your team members would be speculating abt how their new MO (yours sincerely) will be like, and if I am competent enough for the job. Knowing how Sgporeans are like, I wouldn't be surprised if there will a group who would despise me for having grad from a UK med school with a thought that I must be less knowledgeable and less competent, and another who would expect me to be quite good because I was trained in UK (some people think it's prestigious for strange reasons).
I remember when I was still a student and doing a placement in Sg once, one of my MOs I was with was commenting that his house officer takes rubbish histories because he's not from NUS. Honestly, I found that extremely unprofessional, and seriously, I think it is unfair to think every non-NUS grad is the same. It doesn't take a person to grad from Cambridge or Havard to take a brilliant history. Besides, I do not think every NUS med grad takes brilliant histories too. I definitely wasn't impressed seeing some MOs who grad from NUS copying the entire history from a GP's letter, and faking it off like as if he spent 30 mins obtaining those information.
Anyway, being a MO will mean having a HO as my junior for the very first time, and it does add a bit of pressure to me since I'll be expected to be able to give advice to my junior if he/she faces a problem in the ward. I reckon it'll be very embarrassing to say "I don't know" each time I'm being asked a question, looking really stupid and useless in front of my little HO.
Hence, I've been studying a lot recently, but damn it......my ability to retain info has plunged drastically after starting work!!!!! I'm concentrating more on the acute management, rather than the core knowledge since I roughly have a brief idea of the different illnesses now. It's really interesting reading this book I've borrowed from the library and I've been referring to it so much that this new book is actually falling apart now (ooopppsss!). Prefer it so much than the Oxford Handbooks which I've got (hate how squashed up the info is in the Oxford Handbook Series).
One major obstacle now is the sleeping bug. I'm not sure why I've been feeling very tired these days. I'm not someone who sleeps early, but on certain days, I'm actually in bed by 7.30pm. Owain was still teasing me that day, going "Is it past your bedtime now Michelle?" when I was sitting comfortably on his sofa, keeping quiet while looking at him cooking dinner and chopping olives.
Shall try to load myself with Caffeine to keep awake. I have been so sleepy for the last few days that I hardly did any proper studying.
Time to get organised and get my butt down to doing something productive! :)
Oh..and it's Laksa night tmr!!!! Cross fingers that I won't let my friends down tmr! Dearie's feeling kinda jealous that he's not around to taste it....he loves the Laksa I make...lol..
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