lazy sunday

an eventful and tiring few days:

thursday: work. started on my latest arts assignment due friday. beers at the oval. cooked some dumplings. did more work on my assignment. three hours sleep.

friday: work. no idea what happened that day. my med student was my brain. i was a pen that signed stuff. my paragraphs last night didn't make any sense. too late to change anything. made up some references. two hours sleep. went out on the allied health pub crawl.

saturday: dishes. laundry. groceries. ride back with brumbles. medleys. beers with group a. sleep over at xiang's.

sunday: three breakfasts. beer. bowling. got back to ballarat. sleeeeeeeeep.


xiang pretended she didn't want to talk to us. we decided to teach her a lesson.

trio

mrs b had her gallbladder out the other day. she had a really big stone and so they did an open procedure. post-operatively her drain tube fell out but bile continued to pour out of the defect. her surgeon referred her to our team, and we did a hepatico-jejunostomy with access limb.

i can appreciate that technically it was a very interesting procedure. but truthfully, i found the whole thing rather dull. instead, i find writing up insulin regimens more exciting. call me strange or something.

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mrs p had a laparotomy to explore her abdomen ten days ago. her small bowel obstruction was attributed to internal hernias. she had been improving until the weekend and there had been talk of transferring her back to the local hospital to recover. last night she started vomiting again and a contrast study showed another small intestine blockage. with her poor heart and lung function, will she survive another trip to the operating theatre?

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mrs r has even more extensive heart and lung disease. she has a raised white cell count that we cannot find a cause for. she becomes more disoriented and tired every day. she is going to die. i will miss her.

what could have been

the days flip by too quickly and i forget what they were about. i think there was a new registrar, lots of admissions and discharges, medical students, and a dinner. and so general medicine is over. much more importantly, i read the transformed cell by rosenberg. it rekindled the fire inside me. i wish i had found this last month:

http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/fellows/types/granttype/scholars/meddent.htm

*sigh* i guess it wasn't meant to be.

thirsty thursday

tom sings the french national anthem: what the?


oh look my bottle is still half full!


medical education: naveed shows a student how its done