tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41248345864452346042024-03-05T10:02:26.350+01:00Becoming A DoctorMy Journey......Hirrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240671577130353689noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4124834586445234604.post-6789641418728743632013-12-28T06:50:00.000+01:002013-12-28T06:50:24.945+01:00Post GraduationThis post is long over due, but I have contemplated writing it for so long for so many reasons.<br />
One being that this blog was intended to chronicle my final year in medical school up till when I finally become a doctor which already happened. But I realized a lot of my reader's want to know what's next after becoming a doctor. How I am fitting in especially due to the fact that I was returning back to Nigeria a very different environment.<br />
Another reason is, I want to be as polite as possible to write about my experience here in Nigeria since it has been far from what I expected. I really want to write the truth without hurting anyone.<br />
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Another is I had the typical writer's block... lol.<br />
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Well I just found this interview I did a while back for Blackexpat.com. It's always nice to see this old posts cos sometimes they remind you of certain goals you set for yourself, it grounds you to stay true to who you are.<br />
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Check it out <a href="http://blackexpat.com/new/magazine-archives/2011-articles/ms-adamu-went-to-hungary-to-study-medicine-and-plans-to-return-to-nigeria-a-doctor/">http://blackexpat.com/new/magazine-archives/2011-articles/ms-adamu-went-to-hungary-to-study-medicine-and-plans-to-return-to-nigeria-a-doctor/</a><br />
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live, laugh, love and let go my dear readers. xox<br />
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As you read this I'm in a car heading out of debrecen for the last time. Six years are done and its so sad, don't want it to be over. Many thanks to all the amazing people I met along the way esp those who became friends.. gonna miss you all dearly.. I had the time of my life here.<br />
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love always...<br />
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Still can't believe I'm graduating today. I waited and dreamed for so many years of this day and now that it is here, it is so unreal.<br />
A very big thank you to God, my family, friends and you my readers. Honestly you were all my backbones, every word of encouragement and prayer was worth millions and very much needed, words can't express my gratitude.. Thank you, in Hungarian we say <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">köszönöm szépen</span></span><br />
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I will post up pics of the event and all.<br />
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much love always and keep those beautiful smiles on your faces.<br />
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Much thanks to all my lovely readers who have joined me in this journey, was worth sharing some of my experiences with you all.<br />
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I am done with all my practises and exams, and will have my States exams exactly one week from now, and then I'm DONE DONE DONE!!!<br />
Till then, much love always.........<br />
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Happy New month, I know it's late, but won't let this one pass, because May is my best, month of the year. Wishing you all the best this month has to offer cos it's a very beautiful month. I'm busy with studying for exams. Had pediatrics today turned out pretty fab. My last exam is obstetrics and gynecology, before the grand final exam. So Good luck to me!<br />
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Keep smiling and always stay positive, love<br />
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It was like someone handed me a book of my journey through medical school. Even thou the book is Dr Youn's memoir, I felt like it was mine. I connected and related to the book on every level.<br />
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I must confess that I always avoided reading medical related books (except my text books, I will avoid them if I could trust me) for the mere fact that I will find them just so boring. This book wasn't, So full of humor, stories that will crack your ribs but also those that will make you shed a tear and some that rose emotions of anger and frustration at some of the characters in the book. Not filled with medical jargon's. It's a book everyone will find interesting I assure you, whether you are in the medical field or not.<br />
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'In stitches' Dr Youn's book largely about becoming a doctor. He writes about the jaw he had that grew, and the corrective surgery, being different. His years of pre med, trying to fit it and getting his parent's approval in whatever he did. When he questioned certain things about his faith. Moving on to medical school, his four years in medical school, classes, exams, friendship. Being the King on the dance floor, with the shopping cart dance! Looking into a bucket of hands and becoming attached. His Different clinical rotations. The roller coaster he went through in medical school. Approvals and disapproval's from colleague and other doctors. His encounters with patients, one whom he convince to take a life saving surgery, another a child what he describes as "life changing".Finding love and his niche in medicine.And finally, In his last days of medical school being able to answer the question he was asked on his first day of medical school, "Why do you want to become a doctor".<br />
Was an awesome read, full on humor, bringing out the fun in medicine. I recommend for everyone, You can order the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451608446?ie=UTF8&tag=celebcosmesur-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1451608446">here</a>.<br />
Visit the web site <a href="http://www.institchesbook.com/">http://www.institchesbook.com/</a> for reviews by others and more.<br />
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Due to my late review, my competition is still on and you can enter by liking the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/institchesbook">In stitches page on Facebook</a>. Make sure you follow this blog via Google friend connect. Leave a comment below or send me an email <a href="mailto:mee@fabladyh.com">mee@fabladyh.com</a> after you do.Closes on the 2n of May. I will select randomly and send an email to the winner requiring your postal address. Good luck!! (Sorry US/Canada only).<br />
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Keep smiling, stay positive<br />
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As you read this post. I'm probably wandering about the city of Dusseldorf Germany, on a 10 hour transit on my way back to Hungary.<br />
Just thought I take the time and wish you all a very Happy Easter, and enjoy the celebration.<br />
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enter my competition <a href="http://www.fabladyh.com/2011/04/competition-time.html">here</a>.<br />
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In the mist of a very busy day, I thought I'd sneak in and run a give away as promised in previous post.<br />
I would really love to give a detailed and longer review about my latest read, In stitches. But I have so much doing today. So I decided the review will come during the week of the competition.<br />
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I have to say this thou, This book is full on humor and a book most people can relate to. I for one. Below is an excerpt from the book.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;">"I once saw an episode of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"><em>Grey’s Anatomy </em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;">in which a character suggested that she—and every doctor—experienced an “aha moment” when she realized she had become a doctor. That never happened to me. I experienced an accumulation of many moments. Some walloped me, left me reeling. Others flickered and rolled past like a shadow. They involved teachers, classmates, roommates, friends, family, actors playing patients, nurses, the family of patients, and patients themselves, patients who touched me and who troubled me, patients whose courage changed my life and who taught me how to live as they faced death, and of course, doctors—doctors who were kind, doctors who were clueless, doctors who were burned out, doctors who inspired me and doctors whom I aspired to be, doctors who sought my opinion and doctors who shut me down".</span><br />
To read more excerpts visit <a href="http://www.institchesbook.com/">http://www.institchesbook.com</a>.<br />
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To enter for the competition you having to be following this blog, so go ahead click the follow button. Also like the In stitches page on Facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/institchesbook">http://www.facebook.com/institchesbook</a>. Send me a mail with your Facebook name to <a href="mailto:mee@fabladyh.com">mee@fabladyh.com </a>or leave it in the comment below. I will randomly select a winner and contact you on the 29th of April. Good luck.<br />
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Can't wait!? you can pre-order the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451608446?ie=UTF8&tag=celebcosmesur-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1451608446">here</a>. Great prices to be won, check out their Facebook page and website.<br />
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Unfortunately I can only run this competition for those in US and Canada.<br />
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Pediatrics is an experience worth sharing. Firstly I tried to define what the maximum age limit should be for peds (BTW that's short for pediatric) because this minute it was a two months baby you see in the wards, next minute you see an adult in the age of 16 walk into the out patient. Some books say 21, I think that's pushing it, coz it means for me being in med school and still seeing a pediatrician, lol. Some mention 18 still to old I think, yes I was in med school at this age! To be honest I have no memories of visiting a pediatrician, because from when I got in to secondary school I had started seeing adult doctors (excuse me). I was just 10 and I think that was to early to graduate to the bigger doctors. So what age? Personally I think 13 yrs is appropriate. Unless you have a chronic condition like, kidney disease, or a heart disease, or diabetes, then I think the pediatrician should follow up this cases till they feel it right to hand them over. What's your view?<br />
I met all kinds of kids. the ever smiling, the crying for no reason,the unreasonably quite, the talkative, the gentle, the ones who believed the hospital is their play ground and so must run it down, and the list goes on. Then there are the parents who you also have to deal with, the careless parent, the worrying for nothing parent, the responsible parent, the ones who think the doctor is the enemy and the ones who are on our sides, those who think the doctors should teach their kids manners and to be well behaved, the abusive parent ( which I must add is just terrible) and the list goes on too.<br />
Something I really liked is seeing was dads walk in with there Kids. you can tell mum is home getting a well deserved rest or out and about doing her thing and getting some time off. Who ever thinks its mum's job to do all the kids stuff? I have mates that have argued with me that it is the role of the mum to raise the kids. In the 21st century people still think like idiots, it's sad. well well, I wouldn't go into that. But you and I know the mum should NEVER be responsible alone!<br />
Once this dad walks in hands us (med student) a bag of chocolate quietly, I went like yes, finally we med students are gifted for... well I don't know what it is we do, oh I know we don't hurt the kids, we play the most with them and think ever child is cute (note the male students thou). Well he ask us to give it to his daughter (sad face) after the doctor was done examining her. Saying he told her if she was good, the doctors will give her chocolate (yeah right). And of course his daughter wasn't the typical "screaming-for-no-reason-refusing -to-lie-on-the-examination bed child", she was well behaved. Lesson learnt! In peds if you you want your patients to cooperate you bribe them/ make a bargain with them. Not an easy field right, at least you don't have to bribe adults (well most of them) to cooperate with you and lay on the darn bed to be examined,.<br />
As much as I loved the father-child relationship, I loved when I saw both parents walk in with their child. I kinda observed the difference in kids who came in from stable homes. they were well behaved and in terms of copping with illness, they coped better. Nothing beats a family who fights an illness as a family, especially when the ill is a child.<br />
I spent most of my time in the respiratory and gastroenterology team. lots of asthma and gastroenteritis cases I saw, but from time to time I was allowed to visit other peds departments; peds surgery, endocrinology, NP ICU (neonatal pediatric intensive care unit). Was a great experience overall. Soon time to head back to Debrecen and face the exams.<br />
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Keep smiling, stay positive,<br />
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Thanks so much to <a href="mailto:marni@sneakattackmedia.com">Marni Wandner</a> from <a href="http://www.sneakattackmedia.com/">Sneak Attack Media</a>, today this came in the mail for me, an advance copy (galley) of Dr Anthony Youn's new book <a href="http://www.institchesbook.com/">In Stitches</a>. And Thanks to them I will be hosting My first blog giveaway (YAY!!!), so watch out.<br />
This Book is about becoming a doctor, and will be out 26th of April. You can pre order it <a href="http://www.institchesbook.com/buy-in-stitches-here">here</a>. I am yet to read it, but as soon as I do, I will post up my review.<br />
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Keep Smiling, love<br />
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A young lady came to me and asked if she could ask me a few questions as she was doing a survey on doctors (I know I'm not one, but hey I will be in about 2 months!!!). Well some of the questions really got me thinking. And since she caught me off guard, I think I just babbled. I thought I'd share some of the questions I can remember, feel free answer, make your own observations, comments and whatever.... I'd like to know everyone's view.<br />
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<ul><li>How Relevant do you think doctors are?</li>
<li>What roles do doctors play in the community?</li>
<li>Describe a doctor in three words?</li>
<li>Should doctors be involve in research and have other responsibilities?</li>
<li>Do you think doctors should be the highest payed people? yes or no?</li>
<li>Do you think in the next few years there will be more or less doctors? and why?</li>
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Since I am in Malta I have decided to add a picture from the island in all my post while I'm here so you can get a glimpse of the beautiful island.<br />
This pic was actually taken in Gozo a small Maltese island. I went on a boat ride and got very amazing pictures. It was indeed breath taking. This is the Azure window.<br />
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Keep smiling and stay positive,<br />
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An update: I'm currently in Malta (oh d places my final year has taken me to!), for two months and currently doing my obstetrics and gynecology practice. The hospital is a new state of the art national hospital and the primary hospital on the island. Malta's health care system is rated fifth in the world by WHO, very similar to the UK ( I did my internal practice there) which ranks at 18. The Maltese people are so friendly and polite and I am having a great time here.<br />
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So the other day, I attended a surgery of a 23 year old lady who had invasive cervical cancer. I know this is not the normal scenario, and as young people we never expert to have certain illness. The truth is that we feel we are immortal, and certain illnesses is for the elderly only. well I had a reality check. I'm sharing this not to scared people or all, but to tell any one who reads this post to go get a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>PAP SMEAR</b></span>. </span><b style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">VERY IMPORTANT!!</span>. </b>read more <a href="http://www.menstruation.com.au/periodpages/papsmear.html">here</a>.<br />
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Medical students intrested in doing an elective in Malta, click <a href="http://mmsa.org.mt/electives/">here </a> .<br />
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Stay positive and keep smiling.<br />
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Much love always,<br />
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But they were wrong, Milo had another heart defect that required he go in for surgery again. This time no doctor wanted to cut open this poor kid. Let him enjoy what was left of life pain free. But it was the strength Milo showed that allowed the bravest of cardiologist take him in for surgery. The surgery went well, once again Milo had beaten the odds.<br />
To everyones disappointment, Milo was still so sick, his heart wasn't supplying his body with enough blood. The brain which is very sensitive to low oxygen will also under develop, meaning if Milo survived this time he will have a very poor IQ. A check was done and it was discovered that Milo needed a corrective surgery because one of his previous surgery hadn't gone as well. Milo will not survive this!!<br />
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Fast foward to 3 years later. I'm standing in the cardiology examination room of pediatic really getting tired and fustrated at all the crying kids who come in. Who knew peds could be this annoying. I'm about to tell my tutor I feel sick, so I can get the hell out of there. The door opens and I see one of the most active, happy kid walk in ahead of his parents, he greets everyone one in the room, and the immediately the mood in the room changes. His mom places him on the examination bed, he looks around at each of us and smiles. He then looks at the doctor and says I've HAD heart problems, still with a smile on his face. Milo had survive, 3 years later with no complications and the perfect IQ for his age. He is indeed a wonder and a story worth sharing. Even my tutor despite being with Milo in his years of struggle and good health is still amaze as he tells me Milo's story. He didn't believe Milo would survive, no one actually believed not even his parents. Milo is healthy and doing fine and comes back regularly for check ups. He is the wonder kid, who's spirit inspires me.<br />
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"The power of the human spirit is to rise up when faced with adversity and as we rise.... we have a responsibility to bring others along with us".<br />
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While its lovers day let me draw your attention to my giving back page <a href="http://www.fabladyh.com/p/giving-back.html">here</a>, love is giving right!<br />
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Happy Valentines day people.<br />
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Every now and then I look up Job options, seeing as I'll be done in about four month its all that worries me now, making money! I've look at so many options, and realized that having study'ed medicine in a foreign country I'm pretty screwed (forgive my language).<br />
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I have my Thesis to complete and that looks like an impossible task. I've got two more exams before my state exam, and I'm wondering where the strength is gonna come from, because right now I'm exhausted and burnt out and just wanna pack my things and quit school. Then there is the state exam, which is the big one, the final of the finals, and the thought of it makes me sick with fear. I try to always stay positive but I'm failing now.<br />
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So many things going through my head about WHAT NEXT? everything right now seems so Impossible.<br />
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I remember coming to debrecen 6 years ago and the thought of having to go through 6 years of gruesome medical training. It seemed so Impossible.<br />
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My resolution for this month is to work harder and quit procasting. What's yours?<br />
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Its gonna be a very cold month here in debrecen, its -10 degrees already! so I'm thinking of escaping the weather.. hmmmmm. we'll see. Right now I'm working <s>real hard</s> on my thesis. I'm out of the hospitals and in front of my laptop all day.<br />
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Keep smiling and stay positive, love<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">During my surgery practise one day, I went into the theater and there was a young lady lying in the corridor crying so loud. I asked a </span>surgeon<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">, whats d case? and he tells me ectopic pregnancy (which we are taught is an emergency and immediate surgery must be done). But oh well here is this patient lying in the corridor crying, yet no seems to be bothered. I looked at her and she's like "help me, I'm dying" ( I can't even imagine the pain she was in). I could have walk off like every other "busy" surgeon around, to be honest I was tempted to but this lady was crying real hard, so I held her hands and smiled at her, and she said "I'm going to die" I told her you will be fine (not knowing), she clamed down down a bit somehow and then I left to go find my team. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Days later I'm walking in the ward and some woman is greeting me. She must have me confused with someone else, but I smile and say hi to, "don't u remember me 'doctor' (head swells) from the Theater?" she said, immediately I remembered, she was d the lady I told "you will be fine" thank goodness she was. She goes on to add "thank you so much". Oh my the joy that went through me as the doctors on my team just stared, thinking to </span>their selves<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> what could a medical student possibly have done, to make this patient so happy and grateful. Well I was SENSITIVE!</span><br />
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Procrastination is just a form of being lazy. I procrastinated so many things, my applications, my thesis work, blogging, cleaning my apartment, registering in the gym etc. At the end of the day, I find myself in a big mess, confused, stressed and having too much to do at once.<br />
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Always tell yourself this DO IT NOW. and DO IT NOW!<br />
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Keep smiling, love<br />
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Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas.. And Happy New year in advance all and you know this comes with wishing you the Best the year has to offer.. Any new year resolutions? Mine is to become a doctor in the new year.. haha.. Enjoy the new year people..<br />
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Just a quick post to let you all know I'm alive and well. Been traveling a lot so haven't had anything to blog about. But guess What I'm in Nigeria now!!! Started Internal Medicine practice and today was my first day. All I can say now is that there is lots more of story.. hmmmmm. I'm gonna have to look for a way to tell it all. Its a whole different experience from Hungary, but I'm so glad to be here. <b>I Have just one main goal to wear a smile on my face ALWAYS.</b><br />
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A little about my first day.. well I felt like a fool because I couldn't answer any of the questions thrown at me. I'm sure this made the doctors question my uni, I'm so sorry debrecen, I'll for sure step up my game. Also I almost fainted today, I guess it was d combination of no breakfast, standing for long and the heat that caused it.<br />
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So much more to come, stay with me.<br />
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Speaking of English internal medicine was hard enough in the sense that, the ONLY day I had the opportunity to do anything in my two weeks there, I was given two patients to take their history and do a physical examination. Its like communicating with the deaf. These patients spoke no English, when I say no English I mean no, not a little English, but none at all. And since I am not so good in Hungarian myself and had no translator (as I did in other rotations) it was hard. But some how the Job was done with much difficulty. It was also so frustrating that I didn't understand everything they had to say. One of the patients even had so much to say. Now even if I didn't need the long story to write out a complete history. Its just nice to be able to listen and UNDERSTAND what someone is saying to you. I mean there is a reason they are telling u what they are saying right?<br />
Like I have warned in a previous post, If you wanna study medicine, please go somewhere you understand the language and if you are like me, already stucked in a country u don't speak d language, make every effort to learn the language before your clinical years. If you are even more like me, and its already too late, suck it up, wear a smile on your face and learn how to make signs and facial expression work for u to understand. Because one important thing I have learnt in the years in medical school <b>COMMUNICATION </b>is key. I need not say more.<br />
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Well, well that has pretty much been my week. Working more on my thesis now. So might not be blogging as much in the next two weeks, but u never know something might strike, so stick with me on this journey.<br />
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Ooooh so its good bye summer. Bring on fall. And guess what 10 months or less to become a doctor, yippeee!!!<br />
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I know I should have posted update about my first week in internal medicine, but I have done nothing this week. Showed up to the hospital everyday but it seems no one has time for us. Oh well I'll see how this week goes.<br />
By the way I changed my thesis topics, no longer writing on Children with HIV/AIDS as I previously mentioned. I'm now writing on some much complex topic in neurology. will let you in on it pretty soon.<br />
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Well thats all with me. will in check in during the week if anything interesting comes up, till then have a lovely week, and remember to keep smiling.<br />
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I was on call on Wednesday as you know from my previous post and this was the most demanding day in my whole time in surgery. I assisted in two surgeries and it was hell. both of them were open abdomen surgery, so I had to work with really large instrument and being small it was a very difficult task.<br />
During the 1st surgery the surgeon was pretty much mad at me. Taught I was doing a rubbish Job retracting but I was doing my best, and as the surgery went on and he kept complaining I started to get frustrated. Here I am, operating table as high as my chest (duh, d surgeons were both taller than me), couldn't see a thing, arm paining me from retracting, its 3pm, been in the hospital since 7:30am and he just didn't appreciate my effort, oh psst. at least the other surgeon told me I did a good job. I needed to hear that.<br />
At 6pm the phone in the call room rings telling me there is a surgery, come to the OR in about 30mins. I'm scrubbing in and the surgeon on call comes in, I ask what surgery is it, and he is like its a case of colon cancer. Oh no another open abdomen surgery. By the time we were all prepped and ready to start, my legs had began to fail me, they were tired from standing and walking around all day. Then we started the surgery I was retracting and then my sides were like it was on fire, and at this moment, I realized I can never be a surgeon, I'm not just cut out for the job, don't hv the inner core strength for it. well I did what I had to do, bared all the pain in my body and tired legs.Didn't leave the hospital till 10pm that day.<br />
I checked with the porta (don't even know what it is called in English,lol) only to see I had been schedule for surgery the next day again.. This people are Kidding me. Something funny happened on my way out, The Porta followed me, so thinking I had dropped something I stopped to answer him, and he asked me If another student had come to take over from me. Meaning if no one had come I would hv had to stay, and my friend who took over from me, had a six hour straight surgery that day..lol. I would have been dead if I had to stay the night.<br />
Thank God I'm done with them, Phew!!!!<br />
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Whats next? two weeks of internal medicine.. watch this space!!!<br />
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