Retrosexual

20/04/08 - Suture Self?:

The other week a friend and I ventured into the basement of the Royal London for a guest lecture. It would seem that the silent corridors and rooms of the hospital basement are for three things; the MRI, the morgue, and the medical students. Sat in the dingy and dated lecture theatre, most likely surrounded by radioactive dyes in storage through one wall and cold dead bodies through another, we ponder as to what dramas are playing up on the floors above...

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28/04/08 - Diff'rent Strokes:

Lock-down mode once again at the halls for this Friday brings the dreaded, hastily anticipated, and supposedly most difficult of all first year exams – the brain and behaviour (and locomotor) exam.

Cranial nerves, spinal tracts, brain anatomy and infinite fact have been crammed into our cortexes...

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30/04/08 - Unprotected Text and the City:

I temporarily made a transition to city-boy status this morning, donning my smart clothes and making my way to an agency to register for summer work. I hadn’t however, anticipated the two hour slog of paper work and menial computerised tests. As I sat down in this open plan office at a computer terminal, to log on and grind down, I felt a sudden sense of chilling perspective.

Me

The candidate - Ferocious in the boardroom
and packing some serious toner cartridge...


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06/05/08 - Big Mouth Strikes Again:


The final module is upon us, as is the countdown to end of year exams and summer. For the next three weeks we shall be slogging our way through the ins and outs of the pelvis, the highs and lows of the sex hormones and finishing with the triumphant climax of birth – all to come in human development...

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07/05/08 - Yep, I'm Mature:

Following on from a long spiel on various tissue samples, the tutor declares:

"I know there's a lot to take in, but I hope by now you've managed to get a feel for the prostate"...

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18/05/08 - Calling All Haematologists:

Mr Ali, a 59yr old Bengali man, presented to his GP with a 1 week history of cough productive of green sputum. He had a pain in the right side of his chest whenever he coughed. He had been feeling unwell for some time, with aches and pains all over. The GP sent off the sputum for culture, and in the meantime prescribed amoxicillin 250mg three times a day for 5 days.

A week later he returned, feeling worse...

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20/05/08 - Retrosexual:

Human development wasn’t as interesting as I’d hoped. Perhaps that is just the typical male medical student attitude, maybe things are different on the wards. I for one will be glad to see the back of anything remotely menstrual. That’s not to say it was all that bad, I learnt a few things, things I perhaps would rather not know in hindsight (– YouTube ‘episiotomy’ at your own risk).

Quote of the week...

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