551: When I grow up… «

… I want to be a Superhero with my trusty Stethoscope as my sidekick!

… Like Dr M House Wilson! (Yes! ‘cos now he reminds me of Dr House as well – diagnostically!)

I TELL YOU I spent 5 hours in the A & E with him today and he is like so geng! People keep passing the patient from one department to the other and in the end it eventually gets passed to him and he is indignant on the patient’s behalf! So what does he do?

He takes the time to sit down and slowly go through all the given information and try to figure out what’s wrong with the patient, he talks to the patient and he explains stuff to them, and then he examines them, and then he doesn’t move on to the next case until he has fully settled the case he is working on!

Then! He takes the time and trouble to rewrite the whole case report, summarising info from the entire patient file (I know how tedious this is ‘cos I sat through the whole writing process… I see only also sien already -_-) and then at the end he signs the report (his signature is like a stupid curved line only – I guess he sign properly also sign until sien already :D) and then he takes out his chop from his left pocket and then chops the report and then he moves on to the next case!

OH I tell you we talked alot about IMU as well (*ahem* yuan lai he become PBL faci before la! AND he was once in the SRC!)

Anyway yalah. I know what kind of doctor I want to become when I grow up liao.

My faith in the medical profession has been restored! There ARE genuinely good doctors walking the hospital halls~! :D

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Do you have any idea how obscenely expensive a cup of ice lemon tea is in Delifrance, UH?

It’s bloody RM 5.40 ok! Even with the staff/student discount! How outrageous!

(a sausage puff pastry is like RM 2.90 only la…. man damn paiseh :/)

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I tell you it is weird how a combination of 2 bad things (AssyFaceSenior + T.E.A. – from behind) can make such a good thing! LOL.

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OKLA I am going back to the hospital in like an hour’s time! Ehehehehehehe.

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I now realise the importance that comes with a white labcoat.

(I put mine on ONLY when the doc is with me and I take it off first thing after I leave the doc. Very scary ok the potential responsibilities that come with a labcoat.)

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Wheeeeeeeeee~! Random stuff to remember!

“Cocktail” for hyperK: calcium gluconate, dextrose, insulin
Bilateral pleural effusion: cardiac, renal, liver
Ovarian cancers = “silent killer”
ALP raised: liver, bone, but most people who present with raised ALP – cardiac and malignancy
Motor neuron disease: muscle fasciculations (lower! anterior horn and peripheral..?), (upper = central cord)
OCP! Important factor for malignancies!
Babinski’s sign!
The smell of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pericarditis = ST elevation in all leads
Always bring a piece of paper and stick all the stickers of the patients you see on it! In case “10 years later somebody calls you from Timbuktu” XD XD XD
D/D for cellulitis: DVT (and other stuff I kinda forgot -_-)