I'm A Medical Student Get Me Out Of Here

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Computerised Fate

My future (or the next two years of it) are now in the hands of the Severn deanery computer system. I finally plucked up the courage to click submit yesterday after weeks of wrangling over the order of the 287 jobs I had to rank. In the end, I didn't have to rank all of them but I still had to rank way more than my friends in the NW (who have about 12 to 16 jobs to rank having already been allocated to hospitals). I devoted hours to this ranking process, i'm not sure why, part of me wishes there was a lucky dip option. I'm resigned to the fact I might well end up with anything, anywhere.

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How Hard Is It To Be On Time?!

There is only one excuse for being late - being dead (ok, so maybe are a few more than that..)

How hard is it to be on time. A ridiculous proportion of my patients today have been late, 1 didn't even bother to show up at all?! I understand that GPs are often running late, but that is often unavoidable due to the 10 minute appointment system and it is certainly no excuse for patients being late. I have half hour appointments which are almost always concluded within half an hour so I'm never running late - that is until Miss X turns up at 10:15 and knocks me all out of kilter......

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"Little Medic to Room 6 Please"

I went to see my GP today, and characteristically was a good 15 minutes early, despite the fact the surgery is 4 minutes walk around the corner. Anyway I'm quite happy to sit there and read my book until it’s my turn. My appointment was for 10:20 and the GP registrar was only running 10 minutes late.
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Medstudentitis and Medstudentpartneritis.

Well it seems that between me and missbliss in the last 24 hours or so we've had more contact with medical professionals than ever before. You remember I saw my GP yesterday morning with a chronic sore throat that I’ve had since before Christmas, I didn't feel ill at all with it but the irritation is driving me bananas!....

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Old Enough To Be Your Doctor?

The only reservation I ever have about university (apart from the atrocious error of judgment in choosing this particular one) is that I was too young when I started. I was barely 18 (only by a couple of days) when I started the 5 year journey of university. I've always been one of the youngest in my year and I’ve always wondered what would have been different if I’d been in the year below. Children's lives are defined by their school year group and there can be up to a year between students in the same groups. I started school at the age of 4 although I was allowed to fall asleep in the corner in the afternoons whilst the older children were kept awake! I wonder how long it takes for the August babies to catch up with their September friends - is there even anything to catch up? I'd say so - 1 year is a long time when you're 4 or 5! I always enjoyed being one of the youngest in my year at school, especially when it became clear that I was cleverer than many of those around me (how arrogant is that for a child?!)

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"Not The End Of The World"

Today we had an all day communication skills session. Sounds like a real barrel of laughs eh? Even more so when it’s about terminal cancer and dying! There was an interesting start to the morning, as an icebreaker exercise (despite being in the same groups in previous sessions and having spent the last 2 and a half years together) we had to pretend to be QVC presenters in pairs. This provoked much eye-rolling, not only by me but most of my colleagues and there were understandably no volunteers so I volunteered the tutor to go first. To be fair, he did, and he showed it how it should be done. So, in turns we spend 5 minutes trying to sell ridiculous objects that the tutor had brought along ranging from a Cliff Richard CD to 2 self-help books on parenting. To start with I thought this exercise was pointless and ridiculous but when it came to my turn I was actually quite enthusiastic, unlike my partner who looked like she’d rather be dancing naked on the town hall steps. Our ‘item’ was an original artwork (a collage concoction put together by the tutor’s daughter I think). I actually had fun trying to sell this fantastic piece to my audience who were at the ready with their phones and credit cards. It was mentioned that perhaps medicine is the wrong career for me and that I perhaps have a future with QVC.

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Pretty Dam Pleased

After much pressing of 'F5' this morning the job allocation suddenly appeared. At first glance all you could see was a code which unless you'd memorised the list meant nothing.

On checking what the code actually meant, I was pretty dam pleased with my foundation jobs. I will be moving hospitals between F1 and F2 unfortunately but the rotation is pretty perfect.

So, what am I going to be doing? Well....

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If A Job's Worth Doing

I thought I might reflect a little more on my job allocation.

Already facebook is full of groups, one for each deanery with splinter groups now forming for each individual hospital. This means that not only can I spy on what other people I know are up to but can also see who my colleagues are likely to be come August. I'm not sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, it means I’ve already pre-formed opinions on some of those I’ll be working with, but the groups are useful for sharing information (something which there is a significant lack of elsewhere)....

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Poorly
I'm so very poorly and its driving me ****ing insane! This year so far, I've had more illnesses than I've had in my entire life.

WARNING GROSS DETAILS BELOW FOR THOSE OF YOU WITH A FRAGILE DISPOSITION


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I'm Improving - just a little

You'll* be pleased and relieved to know that I'm improving.
*I know some of you won't, but still.

Its slow though, I'm taking my Pen V religiously and I think its probably that which is helping. Having caught sight of my tonsils I've decided I probably have tonsillitis with a bit of sinusitis thrown in for good measure. I'm thoroughly fed up of being ill but I want to get right, which I'm still significantly far from, before I venture back into hospital. As a result I think this week has been a complete washout, rain-stopped-play!

I did the washing up this morning, something which is usually a something and nothing job, there wasn't even a lot of it but it almost killed me. Half way through I was fighting exhaustion, pain and hotness and clinging on by the skin of my teeth. I purposefully sprayed the cold tap at my face on several occasions to prevent me collapsing. After the mountainous load of a few cups and plates I couldn't face the the pan and promptly went to bed, collapsed and fell asleep for about an hour, I was absolutely shattered, it was like I'd run 7 marathons in 7 days.

I've also started to eat a little bit, which ought to improve my energy as for about a week I've had a bit of scrambled egg and a bit of toast. I'm wasting away. I even refused fish and chips last night and that is NOT like me!

I'm looking forward to hopefully (crossing fingers, touching wood and praying) feeling better next week when hopefully I'll have something more interesting to blog about than my temperature and mucus.


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