It has been literally months since my last post, and for that I apologize. Clerkship sucks all your time away especially when you start with the two heavy hitters: Surgery and Internal Medicine.

Well I think I already wrote a little bit about Surgery: It was amazing, crazy hours, but great time and excellent experience. I learnt that I did absorb some of the anatomy from the first year of med. Also, I like seeing a problem, getting right up in there and fixing it, and being able to see the results of your actions quite quickly.

Imagine, patient groaning in pain, feverish, positive Murphy's sign and off you go to the OR. You take out their gallbladder without even hacking them open, laparoscopic surgery (a.k.a. keyhole surgery or the horrible misnomer laser surgery) eliminates the use of the big incisions allowing people to be up and moving earlier.

After that I went on to Medicine, which was totally different. I went from acute problems to more long term problems and issues. This rotation definitely made me a stronger person, and hopefully one day a better doc. I dealt with palliative care issues, and was able to provide what I hoped was the best care for my dying patient. I was also able to manage resources and collaborate with other allied health workers to optimize my patients return to the community.

Both these rotations made me a stronger team player, and definitely started to build on role as a medical expert.

So life begins…

I look forward to my next rotation: Psychiatry, a service I consulted many a time in the past 3 months for patients. I think too often we consult on them expecting them to clarify everything and present us with a totally different patient.

Anyway, Happy Holidays to everyone!!!

Also happy Birthday to all my December peeps: Mel, Lee, Shelina, Wig, Tracy, Q, HRH Y, and I hope I did not leave anyone out!