Wordless Wednesday #3

Shopaholic much?

Am I a shopaholic? Of course, a true shopaholic will NEVER admit she/he is one anyway. The thing is whenever I wanted to go shopping at the mall, I always ended up buying nothing by the end of the day. The day when I only wanted to catch a movie at the cinema, I ended up buying something while I was on my way to the movie theater. LOL. I am weird that way.

Ayah saya cakap saya sangat cerewet when it comes to shopping. Semua benda pun tak berkenan. Kalau dicari-cari lagi susah. Shopping bagi saya macam jatuh cinta padangan pertama. Macam semalam. We were strolling at the mall just to kill some time before having our dinner and suddenly my eyes fell on this gorgeous Polo shirt. It was on sale! The original price was Rp 499,000 and it went down to as low as Rp 179,000! I tried it on and the next second I knew, I was already in front of the cashier. Hahaha~

Pink bebeh!

It has reversible design. I can wear it either way! :D

After paying for it, I joined my friends at Kickers. And I INSTANTLY fell in love with his pastel-coloured shirt. There was like a big sign saying "50% DISCOUNT". I knew that I might regret later if I didn't buy it so I decided to buy it. Hoho~ There goes again my debit card. Rp 139,000 was charged.

So pretty!

In love with the pattern!

 OMG. I spent a lot on shopping this month. I even bought shoes online! I bought these at UP, a shoe-line by the famous fashion blogger Diana Rikasari. They sell pretty wedges and sandals! Yes, I had  a hard time to choose which one I should bought and decided on these. The rainbow stripes wedges are mine and I bought that other pair for my sister! :)

So, am I a shopaholic or what? You tell me. :p

I need to be more kiasu

Had a discussion with an Orthopedic consultant this morning. Each of us was given a topic and asked to find a patient related to our own topic. Mine was Degenerative Disease and of course, I couldn't find any patients in the ward. The only choice is to find them in the Orthopedic Polyclinic. Honestly, I would rather find a patient in the ward for case presentation since you could always go back and forth to the patient whenever you missed something (history-taking, physical examinations). Well, you can't do that in the Polyclinic, obviously! I had a very limited time to do history-taking and physical examinations since there were soooo many patients waiting to be examined. I couldn't take my own sweet time, you see!

The consultant asked me to present my case unexpectedly today. It was supposed to be tomorrow so I didn't really prepare much. My case was about a 71-year-old female with bilateral knee osteoarthritis. She already had total knee replacement in her left knee and was scheduled to have another knee replacement in the contralateral knee. I was being shot a lot of questions from A to Z and most importantly, he asked me why I didn't do a complete knee examination. I only performed the usual Look, Feel and Move but totally forgot about the specific knee examinations such as Lachman test, anterior and posterior drawer tests, patellar ballottement and the list goes on.

Well, you know, being ME, I told him honestly that I didn't perform those examinations. Anddddd he started to give a long lecture on how I should be more enthusiastic and comprehensive in handling a patient. Seriously rasa macam orang paling bodoh kat dunia ni. Okay, exaggerates pulak. Hihi~ I hate "the" feeling. Like I'm not competent enough. After the long lecture, he stopped and said that he liked my honesty and he said it's okay since I'm still in the process of learning. Maybe he thought that I looked as if I was about to cry kot? Hahahaha.

Baiklah doktor! Saya akan cuba menjadi lebih kiasu dalam proses pembelajaran saya. ^__^

Ps. Some of my group mates didn't even see their patients. Their presentation was solely based on the medical records written by the residents. Well, at least I did everything on my own and I'm proud of my own hard work even though it was nowhere near perfect. :)

Internist vs Surgeon?

I'm currently in my last clinical posting, Surgery. Tell you what, I don't like Surgery. I find Internal Medicine is far more interesting. The knowledge and all, you know. Internists; they think a lot. They really dig down regarding whatever is happening to the patients. Surgeons; they don't really think. They open up human bodies and then only they know the diagnosis. I asked one of the Surgery residents on why they took up Surgery instead of other medical fields. His answer was simply because he feels like he doesn't need to think much. Not much of studying etc. All you gotta have is skills! Not sure that is true or not because as a patient, you definitely would not want to be under the knife before the diagnosis is established!

My friend once told me, "be an Internist and marry a Surgeon". Well. I think Surgeons are cool. And most surgeons are male doctors. During my night shifts, I was surrounded by male doctors. Seriously rasa awkward. And they tend to be of good-looking too! Ahem. :P My boyfriend did mention that he would either consider to be an ObGyn specialist or a Surgeon. Oh, jadi Surgeon please! :P

But in the end of the day, surgeons and internists don't go along very well, you see. They blame each other. They hate each other. During one of my night shifts, one of the internists got mad because a patient was referred to her by a surgery resident with a vague diagnosis. Yes, coz they don't think, that's why! They argued about how the patient should be managed medically and surgically. I didn't really get the whole picture but I can see, they don't work well together.

Well. I still think Surgeons are cool! ;)

It irks me

It irks me when people are trying to sound angelic when they're not.
It irks me when people are trying to act like they're innocent and all when they're obviously not.
It irks me when people are looking down at others when they themselves are nowhere near good.
It irks me when people are saying about other people when they're doing the same thing too anyway. They're at the ones at wrong too so what the hell with saying bad things about other people?

Hypocrites. They're everywhere.

Okay. I should stop now before I start becoming one of those people. I admit I myself is no better than other people. I'm trying my very best to become a better person than I am now. InsyaAllah. :) Minta-minta saya dijauhkan dari golongan sebegitu. Nauzubillah min zalik.

Ps. Masih mencari-cari sesuatu. Semoga saya menemuinya. :)

Coz I'm lazy~

Been neglecting this blog for ages. Honestly, I have nothing interesting to blog about. Hari-hari mengadap benda sama je. Haha.. Just finished my elective posting at the Renal-Hypertension division of Internal Medicine Department. I gotta say, I learned a lot from my elective posting. We mainly focused on Hypertension. Do you know there are so many guidelines for the management of hypertension. The guideline that has always been mentioned excessively is The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection,
Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) but there are several others such as the ones released by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), European Society of Hypertension (ESH), and Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP).

Next week, I'm gonna enter the last posting of my final year, SURGERY. Seriously, tak sabar nak habiskan everything here then be back home for good. Back to my beloved family and friends in Malaysia. ^__^ But before that, I'm gonna have to go through the very last obstacle for achieving my medical degree, the Comprehensive exam and integrated OSCE. T__T My examiners for my comprehensive exam will be from Pediatrics and Neurology departments. I am so dead. Pediatrics was my first posting for final year and I had Neurology during my 5th year. How am I supposed to remember the things I've learned? o__O Need to brush up my knowledge a bit since their questions are gonna be so unpredictable. I mean, they can ask anything. ANYTHING.

So yeah. There's no score for the exam. It's either you pass or fail. If you fail, that means you're gonna have to re-sit for remedial. -__-" Hope I don't have to! Bismillahirrahmanirahim..

Yuk studyyyy! Macam orang tu cakap, "Mira kan kiasu". Heh~