Day 0 of the MBBS

Alriteyz everybody.. it's my first paper (Paper 2B Modified Essay Questions) tomorrow.. it's impossible to finish reading through everything but i have to give it my best shot...

Counting down to last day of exam on 24th March 2007 ... hope i will still be alive then ..

My life as a medical student draws to an end..

The situation is getting from bad to dismal ... i have to cover Medicine, Paediatrics, General Surgery, Orthopaedics and Ob and Gyn plus Psychiatry and bits of Ophthalmo in 3 WEEKS. Please please send some divine help ...

Anyhow i guess it has been a long hard 5 years of medical school, and it has definitely been an eye-opener for me ... there are probably a lot of different kinds of medical students out there, and that probably translates into an eclectic mix of doctors of various personalities..

Firstly, we have students who value stale and cheap leftover durian puffs in hospital conference rooms...

Secondly, we have students who value the importance of good geriatric care programmes..
Thirdly, we have students who know how to bend it like a geisha to get what they need..
Fourthly, we have students who always know the good value of free outgoing phone calls..

Last but not least, we have students who always know how to keep abreast of current medical affairs..

Selling my soul to NHG..

After being so touched that the NHG admin officer went all out to get free parking coupons for me (hey AH parking coupons are worth their weight in gold because they are usually guarded by a lady Sauron in baju kurung), and that he personally brought a packet of food for me to my chair during Saturday's revision lecture...

I got out my liquid paper and shifted down all my Singhealth choices lower down my priority scale in my HO application scale. I feel a bit bad coz I did have a free dinner at Mount Faber and a free movie at the expense of Singhealth.. but whenever i think of Singhealth, i think of SGH .. and SGH just feels like a very cold and distant place to me. Although SIP there wasn't too bad, but it just didn't feel right.. the doctors there felt very distant. It's like SGH is Isengard while TTSH is the Shire for me ... moreover, i am sick of eating mee hoon with egg at SGH houseman canteen...

Something in me is frightened of going into NUH Paeds with all its reputation to humiliate anyone who dares not know the 10 signs of Alagille's syndrome and the enzymes of the Kreb's cycle. Then again a part of me wants to push and abuse myself in NUH Paeds.. knowing that I will be threatened/slammed/mutiliated during the grand ward rounds ...

Anyway, I have sealed my fate and officially submitted my forms to Medical Manpower today.