Blue Bloaters

17/01/08 - Blue Bloaters:

General practice, only for the rule breakers apparently. You see, bespoke treatment can only be provided by the most defiant of doctors. Not like those hospital specialists, those conformists whom must fall in line and follow protocol. These are the words of our practice doctor whom I have great admiration for, though I do not necessarily agree with that statement. Smoking was the topic for the day, which turned out to be a real revelation...

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21/01/08 - Yr1 SSMs:

SSM Allocations:

1a – Dissection (Limbs)
1b – Neuronal and pharmacological control of body function

Dissection starts...

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23/01/08 - Human Canvas:

Something you don’t think about when starting medical school is just how much you need to play patient to aid each others learning. Of course, we do get on occasion to meet real patients. Sometimes we even get to listen to their breathing, or take their blood pressure. In the past eight days, I have had to play the topless patient four times...

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27/01/08 - And breathe...

Cardiorespiratory is over, with only exams to look forwards to now. It was on the whole, far better than the first term crock of shit that was FunMed. Hell, there were times I actually felt like I was in medical school...

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28/01/08 - Tummy ache:

“Muscles of the anterolateral abdominal wall”

Qué?

Still a stranger in this town, the anatomy textbooks have once again come into play. I’ve spent most of this afternoon a tourist trying to locate the few basic muscles and fascias that comprise the abdominal wall. The rectus abdominis...

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30/01/08 - The Lax Approach:

I’ve had diarrhoea all afternoon, spread right across my bed sheets. Just to clear up any misconceptions, that be, I’ve been reading about diarrhoea...

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