Sunday, May 28, 2006

Thanks babe, cute nick there! LOL =P

Booie left HCJC 01S7B at 5/28/2006 09:35:00 PM

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Friday, May 26, 2006

jasssss bOooooo.. happy belated BDAY! haven't seen you on msn. only saw u on 23rd and didnt wanna wish in advance. lol. huggo~

Anyways, glad everyone's alive n kickin. bang bang. MI: II sux.

oh btw.. pls ignore the name below. This is Kaiwen signing off.

::KW:: left HCJC 01S7B at 5/26/2006 11:03:00 AM

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Wow, I was taken aback when i saw that the blog was updated! -grin-

Attachment at a hospital must be fun! I'm so looking forward to mine. Have been dealing with paediatrics for my past few placements. I'm aiming to have a placement in a hospital next semester for my block placement.

Meanwhile take care guys! =)

Booie left HCJC 01S7B at 5/23/2006 07:24:00 PM

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Monday, May 22, 2006

Orh, so someone posted on this blog after such a long time. No wonder the order of my blogs on the dashboard change. haha....

Paiseh, I couldn't go for the KTV outing lei! I'm in Finland now on Student Exchange Programme. Coming back in early July. So fast, we all year 4s already! Going to graduate in 1 year's time! Woah! My JC memories also fading away fast...haha...

Hope to see you all in the next class outing!!! :)

rice84 left HCJC 01S7B at 5/22/2006 10:25:00 PM

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Ha, i was about to blog on my own blog when i discover the blog has been updated! Ha.

Anyway, my view on this responsibility of doctor is as follows:

1) The very reason why i didnt choose to be a doctor is this: I do not like to deal with things bordering on life and death itself. To me, i am the sort of people who place responsibilty at the top of my list. Even if i save 1000 lives, but there is one life i can save which i failed to, i will blame myself. It doesnt matter how many life i saved, to me, it cannot make up for one which i failed to save.

To me, to be a doctor, u cannot be so responsible. I mean not irresponsible, but u must be able to absolve yourself of mistakes. And that is so not me. Even if it is not my fault, i will also tink of how i might be responsible. And that is bad. So bad for a doctor to be like dat. In a way, i feel dcotor have to be sort of numb against issues of life and death, which I unfortunately cant.

2) I feel uncomfortable at the trade of doctor itself --> to bring something as noble as life itself down to a filthy level of money is well, degrading. I am not saying doctors all work for the sake of money, but unfortunately such cases are abundant. I mean to charge for their services and time to cover thier running expenses and living expenses is ok, but to earn for selling medicine as well? I tink it is a bit ridiculous--> a doctor can well survive just on consultation fees.

3) If you ask me which doctors i admire the most, they have to be surgeons. Cos they are plying a trade involving skill. GPs? Yeah, they tackle some tough cases some times, but most of the time? Earn from selling medicine from chronic illnesses like high blood pressure, selling medicine like cough syrup and panadol, like that is more of being a trader then curing illnesses. Sometimes still cock up give wrong medicine. A noble trader? Hmm.

4) I apologise for sounding quite anti-doctor ( too amny budding doctor here), but too bad, there are too many rotten eggs out there (even if they are the minority, pple still rem them more den the gd ones, ya?), and those i experienced are not good at all.

Peace, i go blog my own blog first.

nemo-omen left HCJC 01S7B at 5/22/2006 09:37:00 PM

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Sunday, May 21, 2006

wah! i just checked my dashboard and was shocked to see a new post.. haha

to those who went ktv that day, it really was a good time catching up with u guys! CSQ, ZW, ZY, KW and YX.. brings back some memories of JC life.. to tell u honestly, those memories are fast fading. i have a very bad memory about school stuff, JC, sec sch, pri sch all included.. maybe it's all the medicine knowledge competing with space for these memories ha.. so gotta go for these outings more often so as to recap some of these memories!

hmm regarding a doctor's responsibility for a patient's life.. well in med sch, we were taught to first, do no harm! i think in future, when we become doctors, the zeal to do a lot for patients, more than what is necessary will always be there.. then there might be the temptation to challenge ourselves, rather than put patients' interests first. so i think we must be very wary of our own motives.

but frankly speaking, unless we are surgeons or working in the emergency department, circumstances where patients' lives are at stake are few and far between.. more often than not, we will be doing run-of-the-mill stuff and seeing normal and non life-threatening cases. and really, doctors are not as great as u think they are.. there are many conditions which are uncurable.. there are other conditions which follow a chronic course so the aim is not at achieving cure but at controlling the disease progress and preventing complications.. then there are tumours which shrink and go into remission for no reason.. and there are those that continue to grow and spread despite radical and aggressive treatment..

of cos, advancements in medicine have offered cures for diseases that were once uncurable.. life has been improved both in terms of quantity (in years) and quality (questionable).. but at the end of the day, we must die of something right? haha..

soon wee left HCJC 01S7B at 5/21/2006 04:26:00 PM

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Saturday, May 20, 2006

Well, nobody posted for almost one year already. I am just wondering hows everyone doing now.

Saw soon wee at ttsh a few days ago. I am also at ttsh now doing a 6 wk attachment. Anyway being at the hospital is an eye opener for me, a realisation of how heavy the responsibilities of a doc are. How does it feel like to be directly responsible for a patient's life? Anyone wants to share their thoughts?

H R left HCJC 01S7B at 5/20/2006 09:20:00 PM

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Saturday, June 25, 2005

hello there, looks like no one is posting anything. i've decided to post one before school starts again on mon fer us M3s. I'm posted to Changi with Zeyun and Andrew in my clinical group. God, it'll be like travelling to mordor everyday, i dread the mrt trip. If someone can think of something to cheer me up, pls do...

Lin Wah left HCJC 01S7B at 6/25/2005 12:18:00 AM

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