To be a friend or not?

Hold on wait till you have had this experience......

I meet a patient on my way to a group therapy session, I knew nothing about this patient, but we exchanged gestures, talked a bit, some weird question was even put in but we (me and my mate) chose to ignore/handle it well :-). The patients looked kind of sleepy, so I would guess was under sedatives this could mean mania, but I may be wrong. whatever the diagnosis was, it doesn't hurts to give a smile to the patient, so I do just that and got to my seat.

Stares at you half of the group therapy session (creepy) and every nook and cranny I found myself in the hospital that day, I happen to see the same patient who comes to ask me for my help when it actually wasn't needed.. scary huh? yeah, that sent me out of the hospital (well not literally, I had to attend consultations, but I was the first one to get there and I even hid at the coat hanger ) cos honestly I was scared to death. I have no idea this patients diagnosis, but some part of me tells me it might be bipolar (manic-depressive disorder).

So I ask the big question to be a friend or not? should I have paid more attention and given more of my time to this patients? Or was my little time I spent with the patient and smile appropriate?As doctors we are taught to never get to attached to a patient.

P.S

• This blog is nominated at the Nigerian blog awards, under the Health, fitness or sport category (not a surprise) I have added a link on my side bar or click here, so please go vote for 'Becoming a Doctor'.
• All apologies for any grammatical error you find in my posts, I have lived in Hungary for 6 years so English is not my first language anymore, actually, I don't have that much time to re-read and spell check and all that stuffs as I am quite busy, (I do love blogging don't get me wrong) but I do come back to correct when someone notifies me or I realize. So please feel free to correct me, or if you want the post to be my editor, hola (I think I might know some one who is interested, ha ha.).
• I know the medical field is filled with so much jargon's, so please if you don't understand any of the jargon's, let me know, I will explain further.

pretty please..keep smiling, love

Up and Running

Hey, guys welcome, a very big thank you to all those who have already stopped by.

This blog is now up and running, I will try and update as much as possible and make sure it isn't boring, even thou it is kinda a medical blog (this kind of blogs can be boring).

Be sure to browse through from the tabs on top. Just to highlight, that I will be doing a lot of features, so keep your entries coming..

Let me Introduce myself a bit am Hirra, a Nigerian and a Gemini, Flexible and communicative yet restless and indecisive, dual nature and very versatile. I study At the university of Debrecen, Hungary.

So I start My 6th year (final year) on the 31st of may which unfortunately happens to be my birthday. but its alright thats fine.

Here is an idea of what my final year entails:

Internal Medicine, 10 wks

Pediatrics, 7 wks
Surgery, 5 wks in

Neurology, 4 wks
Psychiatry, 4 wks
Obstetrics and Gynecology, 5 wks

In the mean time before I start my practice am gonna start working on my thesis, Am writing on Children living with HIV/AIDS. so be expecting to get some more insight into that. With that in mind children's day is coming soon, (27th of may). Would like to do something special on that day, I have no Idea yet, so If you have an idea send them here, would really appreciate it, especially if it is related to HIV/AIDS. Would be on the look out too, be expecting a post on that in the next couple of days and please if it requires your help, do fall through.

Once again welcome to this blog.

keep smiling. love