Medicine

“The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish”.


~ Sir William Osler

Sarawak General Hospital Elective Posting

             This elective was an eye-opener for me as I never encounter so many clinical conditions in real life basis. I realized that the subjects which I studied in textbooks and lectures are really useful in real life applications. This made my studies become more meaningful. I learnt a lot real life clinical management from the doctors and I also realized I am still very juvenile in the field of medicine as I just completed 3 semesters. There are still a lot for me to learn before I can graduate as a competent doctor.

            On the medical ethics side, one of the specialists here reminded me that one of the doctor’s duties is to break sad news to patients. He advised me to break sad news with extra cautious. In the ward, I observed how he broke sad new to a newly diagnosed lung cancer patient. He carefully explained the patient’s condition and kept on encouraged the patient not to give up on treatment. He showed to the patient that there is always a hope as long as the patient does not give up on living. This is a skill which is very important to my future career and it is not obtainable from textbooks. The specialist indirectly made me realized that doctor’s jobs is not only diagnosis a disease, but also treat the patients with love and dignity.

            In conclusion, this elective posting is a fruitful one. It strengthens my passion toward the field of medicine. This passion gives me determination to work hard in order to become an excellent doctor in the future. Never the less, I really enjoyed these 3 weeks in Sarawak General Hospital and I would like to thank every doctors which guided me throughout these 3 weeks.

Those who intend to do elective posting in Sarawak GH, can ask opinions from me. I can tell you what's the good and the bad side as well as what to do in the hospital. FYI, SGH is worth to explore. =D

P.S: Upgraded my goal - Aim to be an excellent doctor instead of just a competent one.

P.S: Thanks God I managed to get through Semester 3 with "not bad" result. AMITOFO

Random Ramblings

          The more I understand about medicine, the more I realized that there are too many medical conditions that can't be explained by basic medical sciences. We medical people labelled those as "idiopathy". Or just that I'm still too noob to understand *sigh*. Good thing is that some mysteries will automatically solved when I go further, while some will just remain mysterious. Ahh! Just my random ramblings after long hours of studies =D

          This blog is kind of deadly. Not really because I don't have anything to write. It's just that there're too many of my thoughts which I can't share publicly. This place was suppose for me to throw anything which come to my mind, but there are too many factors need to be considered. Life is ironic.

        Exam soon, So less time, too much to study. High cortisol level. People out there enjoy raya and holiday, but I had to lock myself in room to study. No big deal as I choose this pathway so I have to suck it up. But holidays make me wanna go home!!

         

          The wonder of medicine to me is today I study study study till frustrated then I grumble. Tomorrow still got passion or "fire" to study again. Feel great when understand human body better and better everyday. Feel even greater  when able to explain to someone regarding how his or her illness and body work. Feel greatest when able to help someone get rid of his or her disease or problem? Haven't really experience that =P

          Study is fun, but exam is no fun. =.=

          There is a person who never fail to relieve my stress or moody-ness. Thanks God I can find her to talk whenever I want. *She means more than everything to me*

         Fuh!!! End of rambling! Time to sleep and tomorrow study marathon again!!!

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越是会被人嘲笑的梦想，

才越有实践的价值。

=D / =X

Today am in very good mood. 

=D

Great pleasure talking to the patients in Community Clinic Mantin.

Practiced my history taking skills.

Saw how the technician run tests for full blood count, urine test, tuberculosis etc.

Learnt that history taking will be the 80% of my future lifelong career and I really need to excel in it.

Realized that actually there're advantages to study medicine locally since I wish to serve my own country.

I should master as many languages as possible and need to work on my cantonese language as well.

Medicine had been very fulfilling so far and I'm really glad that I stepped into the sea of Medicine.

But,

There's still something missing.

=X

P/S: I'm not emo-ing. Just沉思。究竟还差什么？希望能为生活添加更多色彩。