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I gotta skip my pediatric surgery class to go and visit the hot chick dentist today. 10 days ago she gave me something under the temporary filling to ‘kill’ my 2nd molar’s nerve so that I could proceed with the root canal treatment.

I went today, she drilled for a while and I was happy it was not painful at all. She was also quite happy that I was not screaming. I was just there sitting quietly, looking at her green eyes, hmm.. no, I think she wore green contacts today, she has brown eyes.

She put this small metal needle into the root and told me to go up to get an Xray done. After that she used some needles and started clearing up my tooth. At one moment I could see some necrotized tissue being pulled out from my mouth, and later on, even a bit of pus! (If not mistaken, a typical case of peridontitis).

It was a bit painful so she injected me with some anaesthesia.

I was thankful to get her as my dentist. She is unlike the previous one, who would drill at my tooth even when I was paining and begging for him to stop. She read my eyes, stops when my eyes widen, and ask if there is any pain from time to time. She frowns when I’m in pain. She almost looks like she is the one paining instead of me. Sejuk hati aku~ She took care of me nicely, and she is pretty, and I’m going back to her on 11th May. Wooohoooo..

She even joked that we met so often that she could already read my mind without asking.

Cool right?

They should add another criteria to enter dentistry school. Must be pretty!

LOL.

Hopefully I gotta be under her care until I go back. Changing back to the male dentist would be quite a disaster now since I had already experienced heaven. Haha.

I think everybody is having some problem adapting back to the normal boring lifestyle of a med student after Volgames. For example, my voice is not back to normal yet, the Dhoom song is still in my brain, I still thought I gotta go for guitar practice and the Volgames 2009 black polo is still somewhere on the floor unwashed. LOL.

Good that I started my pediatric surgery. It is not really hectic because the teacher likes to show us around a lot. Each day will be spent talking to some kids or their mother, and a bit of reading at home will be enough to keep myself updated with what is going to be discussed tomorrow.

Luckily basic surgical knowledge still can be used in this specialty, but not entirely. My mind is thinking about the mock MCQ on the 5th more than reading pediatric surgery. Hopefully I wouldn’t freak out too much later.

2 cents about Volgames:

1. If the game is about bringing people together and making new friends, then I think this game is a success.
2. I think I get to know more people from my own uni, more than those from other universities. What to do, I’m low profile mar…
3. Sometimes supporters are the fanatic ones, not the players.
4. Seriously I think supporters can be pain in the ass. It is very hard to control the condition when things get too heated up.
5. The food is bad la…
6. Next time better hire a sound manager to manage the sound. Someone who knows what he/she is doing.
7. Overall I enjoyed the game a lot. Enjoyed shouting for my friends as well.

The reason why an old guy like me would still shout like monkey during the sport is because I think this is my last time already. It is kinda sad but I believe this would be the last sport event where I shout for somebody who I actually know in real life? Imagine, no more sports day. What we have in the future is called - family days. That you will see small kids running here and there, uncles throwing sweets and kids rushing to collect them. And I’m there standing. Sad right?

I can also think that this is the last time I would play in a band or something together with friends. In the future, I think nobody would listen to me strumming my guitar.

25 years old. If you wanna be a monkey or do anything crazy, you better do it now. In the future, it is either being labelled immature or mad old man. Suddenly, I fear of getting old.

Going for consultation on Thursday, and my official 2 mock MCQ test will be on 5th and 12th of May respectively. Best time to know how fit I am for the real thing.

I think questions of basic sciences are harder to tackle compared to clinical questions. Questions with more than 1 answers can be very tricky as well.

Sigh. Getting nearer and nearer to graduation, felt that I wish for time to slow down abit. I thought I would want that moment to come as fast as possible, and start work as fast as possible. But when the time comes, I think my idea changes, and am already having my own plan for the coming days.

Good luck!

Sekolah tujuh tingkat.

Time is passing real fast. Without really paying attention on how everyday passes, the date just keep on moving and moving and now - 40+ days more to Finals!

1 month left, what can I do in 1 month?

Teachers already start to feed us with lotsa revision materials, remind us things to pay attention to during exams. But I guess most of us do not have the exam feel yet.

No exam feel? It doesn’t matter I have the exam mood or not, if there is, then I gotta push it, if there is none, then I gotta make it. Actually the exams date are not out yet. And I don’t really know the format and the stages that I need to pass. Guess it is more interesting this way?

Done with some revision since the previous month but there are always things to read on, algorithm to memorize, numbers and figures to memorize, pathogenesis to understand and recite, and worst of all, doses to remember (hate numbers). Basically I hate memorizing but it is time I put my brain cells to some hyper-drive now.

If you are also a final year medical student who is yet to graduate, good luck! If you are a freshly graduate doctor, go enjoy your holidays! If you are still years ahead before your final year, pay more attention to what you learn, in the end, I think basics help more than last minute studies.

to decide who lives and who will not?

The previous Friday was an interesting one. We had a small symposium with the old Professor in the medical department, concerning about a woman who is having bloody stool 5 times a day. Examinations confirmed that she had ulcerative colitis.

What’s special about this 26 years old girl is, she is 17 weeks pregnant.

Topic of having a serious disease that could bleed to death any moment during pregnancy is not written on books. All the doctors came to a conclusion that the baby is not to be kept, for the sake of the mother. The mother had also understand that and had already start asking about future pregnancy.

Weirdly, non of the doctors mentioned anything about saving the baby.

After the discussion, my friends and I had our own discussions. Not on the scientific logistic matter of the case, but rather the humanity and religion on this whole thing, exploring ways that could maybe save the child and the mother at the same time, and if she was to turn to us for advice, what would I say to her?

She did asked the Professor, and he answered her that she should stop this pregnancy.

Don’t get me wrong. Whether to do that or not is still her call, but IF we are given the chance or put us into her shoes or her doctors’ shoes, what would we say?

One of us said that she should risk everything for the baby’s life because it is a life we are talking about now. Another one said that he wouldn’t know what to say and it is better to just wait and see (but unknown wait until when, or what). For me, I said I’ll just do what the doctors did just now.

Of course, all of this discussion is kinda bullshit and useless. Not to say that I’m not interested in the humanity way of doing things like whether abortion should be legalize or not but I believe we need to be in that position, having that MUCH knowledge, to grasp the whole understanding of the case. Now, we are just imagining our own scenario and making our assumptions.

Most of the time, we view things that people do easily. We think what they do is wrong because of this and this and this. But actually, we do not see the things they see, or even more, know the things they know. There can always be one easy reason that could easily change how you view at one thing and where you take your stand.

Everybody criticizes this and that from time to time. But talking is always easier than doing. And it is even easier, when the brain is empty and has nothing at all. Arguments based on self imagination, self hallucination.

I think before I start another conversation of such humanity issue, it is wiser to spend my time on books or another articles. Because if I couldn’t know the things that I’m suppose to know, we would become the biggest potential killer in this world, and let alone saving another person’s life.

Life is complicated.

Some where around the right back side of my jaw is giving me some problem. Pain while chewing. Pain while biting. Pain even while not moving or doing anything.

I called my dentist Sergei and he was busy with some other thing at another place. He told his colleague to take over my case.

And….

Lenglui dentist!

LOL, I didn’t took picture of her of course. But I kinda melted in the chair enjoying our moments together. Sorry for being too exaggerating. Well, melted case kinda make the whole process less painful right?

Anyway, she didn’t get to drill on my tooth because she suspected that the 3rd molar is pressing on the 2nd one. Pretty and smart, hmm, good! (Even I know it is a possibility lah!).

Then she sent me to XRay my tooth.

Can’t see anything right? Too bad, camera not clear.

Conclusion, I gotta skip the morning class on Monday to go consult the Surgeon and see what to do later.

Since I have much time left, I told her to look at my 42th tooth as it was a bit sensitive nowadays. She checked and said that most probably the gum is kinda sensitive. She sent me home with some recommendations AND a promise to call me tomorrow to find out how I am doing. LOL. *wicked smile*

Talking about the joy of not being a caries -_-’

I would want to get rid of my wisdom tooth/teeth once and for all. Hopefully they can do it with IV Ketamin. Hahahahaha..

At a discussion about whether the patient has renal failure or not and was talking about GFR.
J : “The handwriting is so bad, I don’t know this is 80 or 800. Sigh”
C : “Maybe it is 80, because 800ml/min is quite impossible.”
J : “But it is said that it is possible to have polyuria”
Me : “I agree with 80, 800 is a bit ridiculous”
The debate went on, lotsa ‘useless’ brainstorming. And teacher came in.
J : “I don’t know this is 80 or 800, the handwriting is too bad”
Teacher : “What’s the difference?”

The next day when I think back… Laughed like stupid. A bunch of fools. LOL.

Feedback of the week.
If you already chronically showed that you are somebody who is lack of discipline, it is useless to try to show urself by showcasing your ‘pseudo-interest’ in any of the discussing matters. You and I both know that you are just ‘acting’ to be in the room when it is so obvious ur mind if floating somewhere in Mars. This is the exact situation when you open your mouth, the statement that come out feels so stupid that it was just being discussed few mins ago.

Sorry for being a bad ass :P

By the way, my surname in the Chinese history is famous for losing the whole empire because of a beautiful woman, and later on involves sleeping on hard bed and taste bile everyday to remind ourselves to seek for revenge. I’m just merely acting according to my nature :P

As a medical student, it is always something sad to read few pages talking about a specific disease, and at the end part of it, there is no treatment! How can there be no treatment for this kind of ganas demonic suffering disease?

I was aware that today’s medical knowledge is achieved by lots and lots of researches, and sometimes even researchers on victims of war. Medicine always get a big push post-war. Look at how the Nazi’s did experiments on real human body in their concentration camps. Look at how surgeons try to achieve the best and most effective (fastest)way in amputating injured soldiers.

But sadly, lotsa things are still incurable.

Or even worse, some are BORN with those diseases. So how, better study and just try our best to service the community right? To fulfill our social responsibility and hopefully pull one or two out of this compulsory sufferings..

7 years of med school. It is like so small compared to the whole life’s career. Sold myself to science. But no regrets!

What am i crapping? LOL.

Yay, don’t be lazy! Let’s start Monday with another instrument quiz!

1. What is the name of this instrument?
2. What is it use for?

Answer by the end of the week. No tips. If you want tips, pay me first. Wakaka.

Long time didn’t upload pictures. Here are your weekly shots!

Windows..

This is how we spend our 10 mins short break!

Small portion, but cost some 10 Ringgit. Things are getting more and more expensive. Ridiculously expensive.

Jenna napping. Wanna know her? Pay me for the service.

This fella can sleep while standing. So this pic is just a more benign version of him sleeping. Duh..

Nah, my messy fully ‘armored’ table for my needs.

These few days, there are only 2 words in my head.

Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more, Read more.

Yea. just like how u read it. 2 words but it keeps on repeating. Am I born to be motivated like this all the time? I hope this lasts until the end of finals. I think this has something to do with the teacher. Usually I prefer sarcastic ones compared to the goodie goodie teacher. Because sometimes those good teachers are a bit too soft, while the sarcastic one always make me feel like I’m climbing the wall. But passing their standards bring better satisfactory than buying an iPhone. Errrr.. Wrong description. LOL.

End of Crap no.1

It is always nice to be busy. But sometimes being too busy means I was stupid before this. LOL. Anyway, nobody is going to be stupid forever.

Med student is like future detectives. Looking for trails of diseases, wait for them to be trapped, try to catch them at the correct time. Gotta know the enemies in order to beat them. No wonder older doctors are mostly grumpy and got this kind of ‘professional disease’. They are like heroes in the war zone, killed too much diseases until they become a monster themselves. Ops, a bit weird again.

End of Crap no.2

Anyway, recovering from homesick because it is slowly warming up now (except for this morning’s snow). It ‘rained’ snow. I know, kinda weird right.

End of Crap no.3

Be a man, read your books.

End of weird post.