Tuesday, November 22, 2011

paeds

exam in two days time!

if there's one lesson to learn from paediatrics posting, it is the care for patients in which the paediatricians have shown.

i can't helped but to admire the paediatrician. they really really really do care a lot about the patient, not just the disease alone, but the patient as a whole.

i have learnt that to be a good doctor, you just need to have the heart (心) for patients, treating them like how you would want to be treated or how you would want your family members to be treated.

it's not easy. but i will definitely set them as my role model.

and, another important thing, i want a paediatrician to be my husband la. for the same reason! lol.

Friday, November 11, 2011

11.11.11

haha. that's 10 days after 1st of Nov. i have to change the date for this post. lol. can't possibly post this at that very minute coz i was in the hospital that time.

2 weeks into paeds. loving it. but i realised sem9 postings are just so short. 4 weeks. gone with no time. i don't how prepared i will be at the end of the posting, is that sufficient? some posting i wont be revisiting until i am working. which means i will be equipped with this knowledge and skill to treat real patient out there. scary huh. i think so too.

somehow i just can't escape falling sick in paeds posting. been coughing my lungs out. don't know is it the bugs in paeds ward or its the over-singing. being a medical person, i know i know, this is most likely be due to infective cause. but somehow i just want to relate it to singing k. lol. but shouting out my heart was therapeutic.


lessons learnt for this week. no matter how good you are, you can only be better if you are humble.humility is something which i need to learn. but there is a thin line between humility and lack of confidence.

got a surprised gift from my senior working alor setar hospital. thats the first time i got a ball pen as gift. with my name engraved on it somore :)) sometimes, its really the sincerity that counts. but sincerity is hard to come by in such world.

andd, one step at a time, i think i am healing :)

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

1.11.11

its november already. and i am in my third posting now! 2 more to go and its THE exam.

paediatrics, one of my favourite posting. looking at the ill kids, i am thankful that i was a cute and healthy child. and i when look at parents of kids labelled with different syndrome, eg down syndrome, i wonder how they actually feel. i have always wanted to understand them, to feel what they are feeling and how they are coping. but it's hard to establish the close relationship. i admire them, for their love, their courage, and how they accepted god gift's in silence.

i don't know how i will react if i am in their place. having to take care a child is difficult, but having to take care of a sick child, who will be dependant on you forever is even harder. for one thing, he may not even be able to call you 'mama'.

there's so much thing to be thankful in life. i kept reminding myself this. but i don't know why i kept dwelling in the past. crying over the same thing again and again.

saw a meaningful quote the other day.

there's a professor who was telling his students about a joke. the first time he told that, everybody laughed. he repeated the joke next day. lesser students laughed. and by the time he repeated 10 times, nobody laughed. moral of the story is we don't laugh over the same joke over and over again. then why cry over the same thing over and over again!