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AS A MEDICAL STUDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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今日考外科臨床. 考完後,出到黎, 見到有個同我一齊剛剛考完既女同學係到倒頭大哭. 哭成一個淚人. 喊到面都紅晒. 咁當然女仔喊就梗有佢身邊既人安慰吓佢呀啦. 但係成個故事既重點就係, 當個系主任見到佢咁喊得咁陰公行過黎加入安慰佢既陣營既時侯, 佢就講:

"妳要學得去面對呢啲野架噃. 考得差好少事啫. 妳第時做醫生仲多野要面對啦. 我話妳聽呀, 妳等時一定會醫死人架噃. 一定會醫死人. 咁到時點呀?"

聽完佢講佢既偉論, 都唔知比乜野反應佢好. 又唔何以話佢錯. 淨係覺佢講呢段野既時侯好似唔係太恰當. 唔係咁識合用黎安慰一個剛剛覺得自己肥左一個成個醫學生涯最重要的一個試的一個女仔.

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係考試呢啲咁緊張刺激既日子, 每日柯屎既routine簡直就係完全無問題,唔需要擔心. 總之就係有多無少比你啦. 我諗,呢個亦都可能係考試唯一既好處. haha!!

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The "funnest" part of the whole ordeal.

20 exam stations, 5 minutes each. Like how one of the classmates described it, it's like the sushi-go-around bar-us students being the sushi and examiners being the customers, evaluating, picking at us, scrutinizing whether or not we are worth it.

1. History taking - A 50 year old man (who looked even older than my dad) pretends that he was having low abdominal pain, constipation, hematuria, and weight loss. And just as I was going to ask him what his past medical history was, the bell rings.

2. Follow up questions for the history taken. Obviously, without his past medical history, what can I put on the answer sheet?

3. Neurosurgery with a CT brain. This one is easy as it's really quite impossible to miss that hugely enlarged pituitary gland pressing onto the optic chiasm. At least this station is safe.

4. Neurosurgery again. "This man is presented with right eye pain with pulsatility, please examine him". Did some routine eye examination without much positive findings. The examiner can't be more helpful than asking, what do you do when you feel a pulsatile liver? And considering a pair of stethoscope was lying comfortably right adjacent to the patient, one would obviously say, "I'd like to auscultate!"

The next few stations are all written stations, which were are straight forward ONLY IF THEY GIVE YOU MORE TIME!!!

5. Forgot what it was
6. Xray of a broken humerus bone
7. Some stupid cost analysis calculations
8. Question on BCG immunoglobulin irrigation of urinary bladder
9. History taking of a gangrenous toe.
10. Rest station

Then the fun begins again...

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I'm nearly dead after 6 hours of exams. It feels worse than working out at the gym for 6 hours straight.

Next up, Surgery written and Medicine MCQ. The best part for this medical MCQ is that, marks deducted (that is, you get negative score, not zero) if you picked the wrong answer. So theoretically, you can actually get an overall of negative mark like, "Oh great, I got a grade of -F". That's freaking fascinating man. It is, as long as I'm not the one who's getting it.

Please continue to pray for me. =)

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Date: May 11, 2009
Time: 09:30 - 17:00
Round 1: Medicine (Written) + Surgery (150 MCQ)

Please pray for me.

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Why can't I be smarter?

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讀書,上ward,讀書,又上ward. I want to take a year off, after graduation, obviously.

May I?

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Coming into the final months of being a medical students, all we do now is to wake up, go to the wards, indiscriminately examine tons of patients, lunch, wards again, read again, dinner, some more wards again, read, and sleep. Just a disgustingly boring routine day after day.

We are now so focused and purpose driven, that everything we do is to get ourselves ready to pass the final MB. Even when we talk to our patients or examine them, our approach is direct, time efficient, and no BS. People start to care less about whether you are sleeping or not, whether you have already been percussed or palpated by 20 other medical students or not. You will be waken up. You will be approached by 30 other of us. You WILL be examined. And for most of the time, we don't even bother to properly greet the patient, introduce ourselves and ask them for their name. We just go in, smile at them, and go, "你好呀, 同你做少少檢查吓." We do this so effectively and we know all the cases so well by heart that, when we refer to different cases, we can 'name' them accurately by going, "Which one? Right, 9D Bed 9. How 'bout 10B 23? Do you think he will let us examine him?"

Finally, amidst this humanless daily routine, there is one patient who lied on Bed 7 in the acute stroke unit made me pause and allowed me to feel again, for a few minutes.

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我以為我一向的夢想是成為一個醫生. 但經過這多年來的經歷和反思, 我現在才知道我一向真正的夢想是什麼. 現作修正:

我的夢想是成為一個唔洗讀書,唔洗輪更, 番朝九晚五既醫生.

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Peace, gentleness, slowness, softness, levitation, calmness, clouds, lakes, green maple leaves, sun shine, bicycle, soft ice cream, sandles, short hair cut, breeze, fresh air, silence, wind, foot steps, art, colors, bells, music, notes, laughters, picture, wings, afloat, waters, the white, the blue, the creativity.

I need some space.

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With only first and morning of the 2nd day off, CNY2009 was spent mostly at the rez. Probably will be similar for next year, except, instead of spending it at the rez, I'll be staying overnight at the wards. Once again, a good reason why NOT to study medicine if you don't really love it and are in it for the money (as if there is much of it).

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Status:

-Male
-Christian
-Son of mom and dad who are in their 60s
-Elder brother of a 29 year old sister
-5th year living away from home at HK
-Final year med student studying at CUHK

Activity:

-Had an orange for breakfast and bought a breakfast roll at a bakery near church
-Church at Yan Fok in the morning at 10 am with parents, Renee, and you.
-Lunch with Mom and Dad at MK 王家沙 till 2 pm.
-Shopped at MK's XXXXXX for Reb's birthday present till 3pm.
-Dad went to watch 007 Quantum of Solace
-Mom went to Bossini to buy pants for Sixth Gooh Jeh
-Went home and studied Acute Medicine in my bed and naturally had a nap till 4:30pm.
-Had some Malaysian papaya mom bought
-Had another orange
-studied a bit more until 7pm.
-Left home for dinner with mom and Gooh Jeung
-Dropped by Langham Place to look for a birthday card for Reb.
-Arrived London Big Restaurant at Nathan Rd. at 7:35pm for Hot pot.
-Mom and Dad, Aunt Margaret, Wing Sze, Gooh Mah Gooh Jeung, 5th Gooh Mah Gooh Jeung went.
-Dined unitl 9:15pm.
-Left early and took bus 281A back to PWH hostel.

為左讀醫, 離開屋企, 父母, 妹妹, 自己一條友住係宿舍. 親戚, 朋友叫食飯都唔敢見. 就黎斷六親咁. 最慘就又唔係讀得好. 點算?

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A terminally illed patient with stage IV lung cancer was admitted for shortness of breath yesterday. After talking to her and knowing more about her condition, the MO came over and discussed with me about her condition and her plan of management. Basically, because of the late stage of disease and her current dire condition, the treatment will just be conservative and "TLC" will be offered to her.

I've actually never heard the word "TLC" before. And since the MO was pretty busy, I thought I would keep my question when ppl are more free. But given the patient's terminal condition, I would've deduced that "TLC" would probably mean, "Terminal Life Care". But turns out it's not when I check with my peers. They told me "TLC" actually means.... wait.. how about you take a wild guess. Email me your guess before you scroll down for the answer. ckkng@hotmail.com.
















































"Tender Loving Care".

How about that.

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Looks like the crisis is going to be settled after the Brits headed off making the right decision at the right time instilling money into the whole banking system. I guess this would make most ppl on this Earth happy. Not me though. For sure it'll be tough to live in a recession, which I've gone through when I've just arrived Canada, but man, for a moment there, I thought after having going through this whole global financial crisis, people will begin to realize how much greed was exposed and how unsolid everyone's productivity was rooted in that people will learn this hard lesson and become more practical, more grounded.

Looks like we are really going no where.

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大陸 is just unbelievably BS. They have single handedly made this Earth 100x less pleasant place to live in. 真係有時rather你出動幾百萬解放軍打過黎搶晒全世界啲錢都好過比你陰啲陰啲咁毒死我地.

Vincents' coming up in September this year. While I am still amazed with how everyone of my closest fellows are moving on to the next stage of life, Samson dropped another surprising news.

"I am getting married September next year"

!!!!!!!!!!!

Overwhelmed. I guess there won't be any more of those heroic excursions afterwards.

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