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I seriously think that my blog is turning into some medical journal.

Today, met a 1 month old boy baby with Down syndrome. I guess the name is pretty common and most people know roughly how a Down syndrome (trisomy 21) kid would look like. If not mistaken, the famous Hongkong series “Fei Mao (fat cat)” is about the story of a guy with Down syndrome. However, for medical students, there are some keywords to remember in order to describe Down syndrome ‘professionally’.

Here I attached a song done by Amateur Transplant, the 2 UK doctors who like to sing medical related stuffs. The song is of course a bit wrong by the ‘mood’ and ‘feel’ but it contains some of the keywords that we gotta remember.

For those that do not like to view video, this is the lyric.

Can you see, that’s baby’s heart beating there on the monitor.
And look there are it’s little arms and it’s little legs.
Um, I’m not quite sure what that bit is, no.

Your baby’s got a flattened nose
A widened gap between its toes
It’s smaller than it’s supposed to be
The scan shows your baby’s got an imperforate rectum
And there’s a big hole in his atrial septum
He’s got signs of left heart failure
And quite abnormal genitalia
I’ll print out the scan so you can see
There’s something quite wrong with your baby
Your baby has Trisomy

He’ll have abnormal motor function
Thanks to meiotic non-dysjunction
You shouldn’t have kids at 53
He’ll have severe mental retardation
How would you feel about a termination
I doubt he’ll live past 10 years old
Check out his epicanthic folds and his single palmar crease
A bit of a mong your baby
Your baby has trisom, it’s what he will die from,
Your baby has trisomy.

Do not get me wrong. I’m absolutely against abortion or anything but this is just the song. It is seriously a blessing to be born well, healthy and even going to med school.

Well, back to the baby. The mother of the baby is not aware that he is having Down syndrome. And she was only 20! You can view the probability of Down Syndrome as a function of maternal age here. It is good that Malaysia government is helping these babies to survive by setting up special schools for them. I myself personally had the experience of spending a few days holidays with these kids back in Malaysia. Mum is quite active in the organization so I just tagged along. Well, I would say, do not get scare of them, they have as much rights to survive as you and me.

I don’t know how new is this but I just got to find out on the net that Amateur Transplants had come out with a new album!!! This is the band that I like to listen to besides all my everyday alternative rock dose. If you are a medical student, I don’t see why you don’t like this band!

The previous album Fitness To Practise had been on my Ipod playlist all the time. Those hits like Final Countdowns, Dorsal Horn Concerto and Eternal Clerking are so funny that it is almost like the brand song for med student. And of course The Drug Song as well.

Okay, now I’m going to introduce Amateur Transplants : Unfit For Practise!

It is already playing in my WMP now. Haha! The song is marvelous!!! The album consists of new and old songs at the same time. A rock version of London Underground, the infamous Anaesthetist’s Hymn.

New songs like Finals Fantasy sings about a bad student answering for his clinical exams! I’ll just quote some of the lyrics and down there is the video in Youtube.

Everybody tells me I’ll pass easily,
I’ve been working hard for so long,
But they didn’t realize my exam techniques,
guaranteeing something will go wrong….

I answer all the written papers easily,
But the clinical wouldn’t be so fine
I get so nervous I just can’t perform
Okay come in candidate 6079, tell me,

What do you see?
I don’t know..
Look at his knee..
I don’t know
What does this scar means?
I really don’t know…

All my knowledge seems to have deserted me
Let me give you this, what do you see?
This is Xray showing Crohn’s disease
No it’s not it’s called an ECG…

LOL, if you want to see all these lyrics sang out by 2 of the famous doctors from UK, you know what to do! By the way, I guess the new songs are in the Youtube as well. I don’t know, how can they sing such bad things but yet when I listen to them I’m so happy! Maybe I’m going crazy soon? Try the song ‘King of Dead’ and I bet you will laugh to death! It is only 45seconds!

This time, they are putting subjects name as their songs’ name. Songs like Psychiatry, Gynaecology, and Urology. LOL. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, look at this lyrics of the song Paediatrics-

You need a little patience,
When you trying to examine a child,
It is source of such frustration,
When you need them to keep still for a while,
They fiddle, they gargle, they giggle, they struggle, they wriggle,
No matter how many toys you give them,
They’ll cryyyyyy
God knows whyyyyyyy
You must employ cunning tactics,
when you do paediatrics,
just tryyyyyy,
when you have a little patient.

The video of paediatrics:

Love this song like shit. Haha. Enjoy!!! Sorry if I might get some of the words wrong in the lyrics because I’m doing it just by listening like this. The ‘Urology Clinic B’ is pretty fun too! See.. a fun way in studying medicine! Haha! Can’t stop laughing..