hello! this is me just back from the acute receiving ward, after having spent almost 12 hours there. on a saturday.
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I LOVED IT :D
haha i was seriously worried about not liking medicine any more after having lost contact with it for so long, but i am very happy to be proven wrong!
i'd like to think that i had several glorious moments today, most of all accurately diagnosing a RAPD out of the blue! (the patient came in with a Hb of 7.1, had a recent fall and a PMH of polymyalgia rheumatica. she told me that she realised that she couldn't see out of her right eye immediately after the fall and so on and so forth...)
also spent a lot of time with an ex-journalist who used to work for times and who used to be a political news broadcaster on tv! he had the most beautiful veins i've seen in a very long time but i had to end up poking him 3 times before i could get a venflon in -___________________________________-
but all was good! the reg offered me a mini cex AND a dops so THAT IS MY ASSESSMENTS DONE WOOHOO.
i also had to take blood from a lady who was suffering from a chronic chest infection and she coughed unabashedly into my face repeatedly throughout the bloodtaking and when i was taking her history AND when i was doing her ecg so i think i am going to fall sick soon. -_- took two prophylactic PCM just in case...
being on the same take as the president of RCPE was so... surreal! i was presenting a patient to him and i hadn't had the time to write my stuff out and so i had no notes, and he was like "oh it's ok, you can refer to your notes" and i was like "hahah errr i haven't got any...." i must've looked like a right idiot omg -_- and i think i appeared rather starstruck while talking lmao
ok i think i should continue doing my case report even though it's already 11 pm and i have to wake up at like 7.30 am tomorrow for another take.
omg i wish i had gone for more extra weekend calls, this is the life man! lol i was just thinking to myself in the bus about how strangely comforted i was by the fact that i am going on call this weekend, i think it's a mixture of being given a chance to leave the house and knowing that this will at least not be a weekend squandered away in procrastination and pure sloth. HAHAHAHAHA.
ok gotta go, bye! :D
