Clown Fish 2
Originally uploaded by WaySiong
Just finished medicine course two weeks ago. It was quite interesting, with 8 weeks of neurology rotation we had the opportunity to see quite a lot of interesting cases in neurology. Spending this long with the team has its perks. For one the team knows you well and you feel really incorporated with everyone. The registrars were really friendly too, had a nice dinner at Darling Harbor with them before the end of the rotation. One of them just got married, in Circular Quay!
Several patients under our care passed away during the rotation. It was quite depressing at first, since most of our patients don't really fully recover. Just found out another patient had died a few days ago. It's quite sad actually, she had literally hundreds of tests done and in the end, nobody could explain why she has persistent recurrent coma.
Saw lots of stroke patients as well since we were largely based on the strokes ward in POW hospital. Stroke patients are a sad lot. Some can't move their limbs, some can't speak, it really sucks. We had a patient that didn't speak English. One day we talked to her with an intepreter and she said she has pains everywhere. No one could understand her so nothing much was done until now.
Anyway life moves on and I'm in my surgical rotations now. Currently with the Upper GI team for 4 weeks, then moving on to Cardiothoracic. The pace is so different here, from 9am to 7am and from slow ward rounds to rapid ward rounds.
Surgeries are fun for a while until the feet hurts. Got to scrub in and help with retraction and stuff which is kinda cool :P The surgeons are quite cool too, they have a mac playing rmb music in the background while they are working.
Thanks for reading!
