Monday, June 05, 2006
angela flew off back to phillippines this morning. shes going to uni der. n its only mintues away frm her home. how cool is tt? gonna miss her. its quite a strange feeling to know that ur fren is leaving the country n u'll never know wen she'll ever be back. hmms. rather sad.. ohwells all da best aj! :)
Friday, June 02, 2006
yes, the attachment wk is over. had gr8 fun n loads of papercuts too.. ahahs. had one on my wrist and it looked as tho i mutilated myself or sumthink. stings lyk hell. n ders another on the joint of my left index finger. ouch. a deeper cut. wus trying to assemble a cardboard box n cut myself. ohwells. guess i cn have these scars for memory sake. hmms. im tokin abt nuthin but cuts huhs. ohwells. got to start on my revision. commont tests are less den 3 weeks away. arrgggh.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Today wus utterly superb! ok, for me it is. i wus attached to Dr Claire today. she wus doing home doctoring that morning.n unlyk clara, i had transport! took our rides in her mpv to 3 houses, one at jurong, den bt batok n finally at west coast. N of course, all the patients had different stories to tell.
At 1st i wus pretty nervous being in the same car with dr claire. a doctor! thought it wud be pretty intimidationg being with sum1 hus of much superior knowledge n experience den me.. but hey, she wus cool n nvr forgot to explain things about her patients to me..
the 1st patient wus an old woman hu lives at jurong. n wen i say old, i mean old. shes a hundred n 3 to be exact. wayy cool. but her condition wus abit sad. she had lost her appetite for sumtym n wus down to her skin n bones. she also had bed sores n all. dr claire let me listen to her lungs with her stethoscope. n yeah, the check up went on for awhile. n guess how old her caregiver is. her daughter is 72! gosh. n shes all strong n all. they were speaking dialects n all, so i cuden relli understand. but hey, one does not nid to understand wad dr calire wus talking to be impressed wif her skills. she wus very professional, always taking not of wad the patient, family member n even the maid has to say.
we went to the nxt 2 houses at bt batok n west coast aft that. i learnt alot of things, tho i wish i cud understand dialects to better learn frm the attachment. nonetheless, it wus a priceless experience. n several common terms came up.lyk dementia, which means a degenration of the brain causing memory loss, odd behaviours n etc.
one thing that struck me wus how utterly impt language is. dr claire was able to speak dialects to her elderly patients, as well as malay to the indon maids. it wus very impressive. n she did it all without making anyone feel uncomfortable for having to speak in their native tongue. n yeah this is one perfect example of a scenario where good english does not matter, cos hardly anyone speaks it. except for me n dr claire to communicate, of cors.hehes.
den it made me think jus how effective i wud be if i wer to choose to go into the healthcare line in terms of being a doctor or nurse. i dont know any dialects. would that put me at a disadvantage? i shud think so. or perhaps if i wer to be a doctor, i wud prolly stay clear of the field which requires me to. yet, i think its nvr gut to just avoid things lyk that. wad more wif our ageing population n all.ohwells. im dun relli have much time left to make a proper career choice. but im definitely narrowing my choices wif my subject combi n all..ohwells. thats for another time for me to ponder. as for now, off to bed. i've got work tmr!
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
work attachment is superb! me, clara n xiao hui were attached to St Luke's hospital at bt baotk.came on monday thinking i'll be doing endless piles of medical records. n yeah, i wus partly right. but hey, our supervisor wus nyce enuff to let us do other things besides just filing stuff.
Kenneth ate lunch wif us on da 1st day thinking we din kno our way around wen actually, clara knows bt batok real well coss thats practically her neighbourhood lah.. ahahs aniwaes, he tok to us abit n i tink aft that, he decided to attach us to different departments. uber cool. he wanted to rotate us around 3 departments frm tues to thurs.
Tues: i wus sent off to day rehab. its were all the previous in-patients come for rehabilitaion to help them move n werk their muscles as per normal agaiin. der wer many physiotherapist around too..the 1st 10 mins was ok. den, the next 3 n a half hrs wus agonizing. i cuden relli do much cos most of the therapists were bz with the patients. n of course, i wus afraid i wud get in their way so diden relli approach dem to ask qns. n der wus this one therapists hu said to me :" u must ask qns... hu knows this mite be ur job one day.." n im lyk, ya rite. i have absolutely no patience n i dun tink i'll be able to tahan the patients rants n what nots. but of cors, i din say dat. jus gave my sheepish grin n went off pretending to pester sum therapist and ask qns...
but it wus not all boring der. observed quite alot of stuff. n im utterly amazed at this particular therapist named chichi. yes, chichi. cute ehs? ahahss. she came frm myanmar about 2 years ago n alreadi she wus speaking chinese n malay. n i tink she knew dialects too! wayy cool. n she wus ultra patient wif the patients.hehehs.quite a petite lady. wonder how she manage to support her patients and all. i guess she got used to it over time..
den aft lunch, we went back to the MRO to do our medical records agaiin. it wus ok lah. we did shredding of the old files. wonder y dey must take so much trouble. its nt lyk anyone's gg to steal empty files.. ohwells. i nvr knew shredding cud be quite fun. we used to shredding machine to shred thousands of files, literally. n yeah, clara, xiao hui n i were pretty violent to the poor machine. especially xiao hui. hehe. nvr knew so much strength cud come out of such a petite gerl. n yeah, we broke apart the trash compartment several times. but hey, being the pros that we are, we got it back it one piece over n over n over agaiin.
Saturday, May 27, 2006
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