Friday, March 30, 2007
Nerve Wrecking
3:17 PM
Yup. I'd missed 3 days of college for the JPA Scholarship Exposure Programme for the applicants who applied for Medicine this year. Apparently it is the second year they carried this programme thingy out and it was pretty interesting. Actually it was pretty funny and discouraging because all the doctors we met, well for the exception of one, warned us about the tough life after 5 years of medical school. And having to serve the government for 10 years upon completing med. school ISN'T a very good start >.<"
Altogether we had 6 departments to cover over a period of three days and all in all was not bad, especially the last day =D. The first day was alright. I reached Hospital Kuala Lumpur at 8 ish and I actually thought I was REALLY early cuz the thingy only starts at nine. However after registering and stuff, I walked into the auditorium and it was already HALF FULL *pengsan-ed* and everyone looked so KEEN and ENTHUSIASTIC except for me who looked half dead. After the speeches and what-not, we were divided into groups and followed the nurses and assistants around the hospital.
OH yes.
Let's not forget the slides they showed us during one of the speeches to gross us out. The hilarious-est slides were the ones in the O & G department (Obsteric and Gynaecology), whereby the pictures were taken when the women were giving birth. There were a few slides which focused on the vagina of a lady and the baby's head could be seen too. And when the picture was enlarged, I could distinctly hear the horrific gasps from the testosterone filled males. LOL.
Lecturer : What's this part adik-adik?? *pointing at area around the vagina with the cursor*
Us: Errrrrrrrrrrr *silence*
Lecturer : Kepala bayi lar!!
Us : Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *relieved*
Lecturer : Ingat apa HAR?!?
We visited the ER (Emergency Room) and O & G on the first day and according to the nurses we were pretty unlucky because in the ER there weren't any seriously injured patients and for the first time in history, there was no mothers giving birth in the O & G wards. WTH. On the second day, we visited the Ortology section, which deals with broken bones and stuff. BORING. We also went to the General Surgical department. The head of surgical department was busy showing us slides on operations and stuff and also discouraging us to the highest level. That was the time I felt REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYY discouraged. In his presentation, it included the years of studying to become a specialist :
A levels - 1 1/2 years
Medical School - 5 years
Housemanship - 1 year (HELL)
Medical Officer - 2-3 years
Masters - 3-4 years
Sub Specialist - 3-4 yearsAnd at the end of the slide presentation came this:
Is it all worth it??I was like, screw it lar. Why can't I just go for easier things and start earning substantial money after getting my degree in any other field but MEDICINE!?!?!? And apparently as a houseman which is practically a trainee in the medic field, you are bullied to the maximum and when you are on call, basically that means no sleep for 34 hours straight. I'm not sure whether they are going all out to scare the daylights out of us or it is REALITY. Those who know me well enough would know I can just rot and die without my SLEEP D: D: D: Sei lorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Anyway, the last day was a tour to the Forensic Department and the Out Patient Department. And the Forensic Department is the most interesting one I'd been!! xD Seriously. Our group was really lucky cuz we were the only group which managed to see not only one post-mortem but TWO!! OMG. It was so COOL. The first post-mortem was done on a Bangladeshi and his case was classified as sudden death so the forensic department must determine the cause of death. When we went in, they had already sewn up his head and was half way through getting his guts and all the insides,out of his body. After all the inspection and slicing his organs carefully, they finally found the cause of death was because of a blocked vascular tube in his heart and the forensic dude showed the vascular tube to us. And it was wayyyyyyy cool. After that, they just dump all the insides into his stomach again and the forensic ppl used a hooked like needle and nylon thread to sew the cut again.
The second case was an Indian guy who was classified as sudden death too. And we got to witness all the dissections from head to toe. Firstly, they used the scapel thingy to cut his head's skin and the upper part near to the face is pulled to cover his features and they clean his skull and all. By the time this is done, you can see the skull pretty clearly. Then they used a saw liked thingy but its round shaped and cracked open the skull and took his brain out and weighed it. OMG. The most gory bit was when they open up his rib cage. The head of forensic took a hook liked metal thingy and hooked it to the first bone on the ribcage and used all his stregth to pull it downwards and therefore cracking all the bone is the ribcages. EVERYONE went like Ohhhhhhh Myyyyy Gawdddddddddddddddd... Freaky. And the repeated the procedure and his cause of death was heart attack too. So cool.
Yup. Too much of med mumble jumble. Blah. Interview's next Thurs. Wish me luck ppl.
i've got soul but i'm not a soldier
