1. I thought office hour starts early, at 8am. Why did I even have the time to doze off when I reached at 7.55. Poor patients.
2. Doctors are super busy. But I thought telling me "rheumatic heart disease with mitral regurgitation" takes less than 5 seconds.
3. Do you mind telling me what's abnormal on the echogram? I don't friggin know a thing. All I could see was the heart pumping normally and valves flapping perfectly.
4. Where's patients' reassurance? Back in Tanglin clinic, patients were informed that strangers standing in the consultation room are medical students. I wonder what the patients in this clinic thinks when they had to pull up their shirts in front of the doctor AND A STRANGER.
5. I just finished year 2. If you ask me to just hang around, I don't know nuts because firstly I'm not allowed to do any hands on. So all I could see was a ward full of female patients lying on their bed with their names labelled respectively.
6. Do you mind to at least guide me? or tell me what to do? back in other hospitals and clinics that I was attached, the doctors were super nice I learned a lot of things from them.
7. And yes simulated patients in Monash are not patungs they are real normal persons. Patungs are called mannequin mind you. No offense, but please if you can try not to look down at private medical schools.
8. The only thing I realised: being able to speak in Iban is important here.
9. The only thing I learned: bisik/misik means yes in Iban. nadai means no.
10. The only thing that I wow-ed: One of the MOs can speak fluent mandarin, english, malay, foochow AND IBAN. Even taking history in malay gives me a big headache already.
11. Iban nurses are nice people to talk to.
Sigh. I hope tomorrow's gonna be a better one. Please, just because you're an MO/HO doesn't mean that you can be ignorant of other people's existence.
Why did I even sign up for 1 month. Hope i don't waste my december.
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