I've Come so Far

I was filling my year book and one of the questions asked was,  medical school in a song? Here is mine.



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!

Keep smiling and always stay positive, love

Book Review 'In Stitches'

I went on a journey, a very emotional one reading 'In Stitches'.

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.

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.

'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".
Was an awesome read, full on humor, bringing out the fun in medicine. I recommend for everyone, You can order the book here.
Visit the web site http://www.institchesbook.com/ for reviews by others and more.

P.s
Due to my late review, my competition is still on and you can enter by liking the In stitches page on Facebook. Make sure you follow this blog via Google friend connect. Leave a comment below or send me an email mee@fabladyh.com 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).

Keep smiling, stay positive

Happy Easter

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.
Just thought I take the time and wish you all a very Happy Easter, and enjoy the celebration.

P.s
enter my competition here.

Competition Time!!!!!

Aloha my beautiful readers,
In the mist of a very busy day, I thought I'd sneak in and run a give away as promised in previous post.
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.

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.

"I once saw an episode of Grey’s Anatomy 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".
To read more excerpts visit http://www.institchesbook.com.

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  http://www.facebook.com/institchesbook. Send me a mail with your Facebook name to mee@fabladyh.com or leave it in the comment below. I will randomly select a winner and contact you on the 29th of April. Good luck.

Can't wait!? you can pre-order the book here. Great prices to be won, check out their Facebook page and website.

P.S
Unfortunately I can only run this competition for those in US and Canada.

Pediatrics

Let me start by saying this, pediatric has by a mile been the best rotation I have done this year. Cheers because this is my last rotation (OMG can you believe it, wow time flies). Well with less than a week left to round up my last rotation I am so nervous, as this means by now I should have the confidence and knowledge of a doctor, but I'm so far form it I must confess. In fact I feel no different from when I began this final year.

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?
 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.
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!
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,.
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.
 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.

P.S
pic: paradise bay, Malta

Keep smiling, stay positive,

In the Mail

Thanks so much to Marni Wandner from Sneak Attack Media, today this came in the mail for me, an advance copy (galley) of Dr Anthony Youn's new book In Stitches. And Thanks to them I will be hosting My first blog giveaway (YAY!!!), so watch out.
This Book is about becoming a doctor, and will be out 26th of April. You can pre order it here.  I am yet to read it, but as soon as I do, I will post up my review.

Keep Smiling, love

An Interview

Today I was siting in the caffeteria, doing absolutely nothing as my firm had just one patient in the ward, so there wasn't much to do. You will Think I will go home right? Well this was 8am, no way I will go home when ppl are just getting to work. Truth be told I would have gone home, but my consultant kindly asked me to join the pediatric surgeons in the out patient, and since they start at 9am, I had to sit for and hour doing absolutely nothing.

 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.

• How Relevant do you think doctors are?
• What roles do doctors play in the community?
• Describe a doctor in three words?
• Should doctors be involve in research and have other responsibilities?
• Do you think doctors should be the highest payed people? yes or no?
• Do you think in the next few years there will be more or less doctors? and why?

P.S
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.
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.

Keep smiling and stay positive,