Tuesday, March 31, 2009

What I Found in My Lecture Notes Today

Because it is revision time, and revision time is the only time where you - well, technically I - ever carefully scrutinize the words on the sheet of paper handed to you during the lecture.
Random snippets I've found amusing:
Symptoms include tremors, blindness, deafness, paralysis, anaesthesias or virtually anything.

Cardiac tamponade: Patient will exhibit signs and symptoms of cardiac tamponade. Treat accordingly.

How to diagnose a jerk?
More to come if I'm still slogging through one year and 6 rotations worth of notes =.=

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Holy smokes, I am still alive!

Contrary to popular belief that I may have gone underground as a black market organ relieving surgeon, I am actually still here, doing - of all things - psychiatry.

When I'm not surrounded by depressed, "Oh no dear, I don't drink any alcohol, just a bit of sherry in my tea 6 times a day along with the occasional red wine, good for my health, they say" little old ladies, I chat to really crazy people with very bizarre ideas and grandiose delusions which is all well and good until they flash their teeth and tell you the only reason they are chatting to you now is that you actually look quite pretty.

I am enjoying it, really.

But it's not quite medicine, is it?

Everyone has an underlying personality disorder in this neck of the woods.

Anyways.

The only reason I'm blogging now is because exams are in 2 weeks and I needed some distraction from the classification of Hodgkin's Lymphoma or whatever it is that I need to know for finals.

It's not like anyone reads this crap anymore. Or do they?