9.5.11

pall care bear

im back doing palliative care. yay!

its annoying having to prepare for exams at the same time. all i want to do is break down people's discomfort into discrete, treatable symptoms; talk away the family's fears and guilt about their loved one's dying in family meetings; dive into clinical research and learn about new exciting drugs; eat free drug-rep lunches perched on a ledge at the back of various multi-disciplinary gatherings; do a few tummy and pleural taps here and there. ahh... bliss! is it wrong to feel this way? am i just finding new ways to procrastinate? am i just trying to convince myself that this is still what i want to do, having been away from it all for a couple of years?

i don't care. im looking forward to going to work tomorrow. something i haven't felt like doing for a long time.

2.5.11

waiting... again

shit has it really been a month already?! it feels as if ive barely started! sure ive stumbled through a few short cases and made a fool of myself messing up a couple of longs, but theyre merely test runs, before i really get stuck into it, before i get serious about the whole thing, before...

sigh. here we go again. perpetually preparing myself. and then just making do when it comes down to it. the life of a procrastinator.

only eleven weeks to go.