Lucky sevens!

So I"ve just gotten the seventh (acceptable) miniCEX done.

Maybe I should explain myself in classic style.

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The year is 2010, the month is January. We"ve just started 3rd year. Things are exciting!

Of course, to pass 3rd year, there are some small things to do. One being the dreaded miniCEX. I forget what it stands for (What"s that you say? It"s written on the top of the form? Don"t be silly.) but it seems that the powers of be have decided we must get these done.
A minimum of 8 of them.
From 4 different assessors.
From 4 different disciplines.
In the fires of Mt Doom.
Naked.
Without a spoon.

Anyway, basically the assessors grade us on basic skills such as history taking, examination skills, communication skills, clinical judgement and barking like a dog.

This is marked out of 7 for each category (7 in all) and that mark is averaged to give us a score of which they will take our best 8 (Why not another 7? Why suddenly 8?) and that average is worked out of a measly 10% of our final mark.

Hooray for jumping through hoops.

-fzztwhirkdsafh;gssssssooooooooooooooooo-

Flashforward, its August 30th, 2010.
I"m at my GP clinic for placement. Its great here! I"m enjoying a peppermint tea while slamming down a double coated Tim Tam (Amazing! Its choc-mint-melty-glory in my mouth!). My GP decides to brief me on the next patient. Briefly.

"Punch biopsy, its all yours!"

I try to appear cool, calm, collected as I"m licking the melted chocolate from my fingers and looking for a safe place to put my antidepressant branded mug.

My GP calls in the next patient.

I do what I have to. I ask my GP to kindly prepare a trolley while I clean my hands and find the necessary materials. Only moments later, I"m ready. I glove up and take a look at the patient"s back. There is a nice little mole in between some feathers. Wait. What?

"Don't ruin my tattoo!"

Oh goody. I clean the area and allow to dry. The gloves are off. Well, now they"re on again. Sterile this time.

As my GP supervises, I clean, get a biopsy and begin to suture.
After one suture is in and trimmed, I pause and see what the wound is like. I decide that it probably needs another suture (Well, I don"t really get the chance to suture all that much, so maybe it was more for my benefit...) due to the slow oozing of blood out of a tiny area. Moments later, I step back and start putting the instruments away for cleaning, the sharps in the sharps container and the rest in the bin.
My GP is still wiping the betadine off the patient and examining the wound. He says nothing.

After we send the patient off and tell her to call in a couple of days for results, he turns to me.

I almost flinch. Almost. I"m enjoying my cup of tea too much.

"How did you do that? The wound fit in with the tattoo perfectly!"

"Buh?" I eloquently replied.

"Natural talent!" He exclaims and pulls out the miniCEX form.


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And so that gives me lucky miniCEX number 7. Well, I think its the 11th in total, but lets not talk about the Unworthy Four.

I"m on a horse

Would you believe I only just found/watched this?

I"m so behind on the times.




Swan dive!

On benders

Patient presents to ED fearful of his life following "assault" by a prostitute.

Background: Patient was sad and bored and went on a 2 week binge during which he partook* of alcohol, illicit drugs and prostitutes of over $6000 worth.

What a dude.




*isn"t that an awesome word?

Ellicia

*hugs*

Miss you dearest!

Elections

So the election is over.

OR IS IT?!?

I don"t even know any more. In fact, I don"t even care. I just want someone to get in so I won"t have to vote again. That was 15 minutes of my life I will never get back.
Also, all the snail mail spam is irritating.
How about you just deposit some money into my account and say "Yes we care!" and I"ll be interested in voting for you.

That is all.

THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER

What does that even mean?

Breaking New Ground

So I"ve just had a nice productive day (I did my washing, I had a giant lunch and I watched a movie) and I thought to myself, why not let everyone else in on it?

Well too bad for you, it was my day and you can"t have any.

Well, maybe a bit. Why not a review of the movie? I mean, just because everyone else is doing it/done it, why can"t I?

 The movie I watched was Scott Pilgrim vs The World.

Say what you will about Michael Cera (he only plays one role, he hasn"t changed his look in 30 years, isn"t he gay? He"s Canadian!) but he plays his awkward Michael Cera role very well. I guess that makes sense because that"s how typecasting works.

Anyway. Scott Pilgrim vs The World is about a 22 year old Canadian, Scott Pilgrim (apparently Michael Cera is 22 too, I honestly thought he was in his 30s) who is some nerdy bass guitar player in an indie band. He"s kind of a dick actually and currently dating a 17 year old asian chick who"s in high school. Apparently that is quite an issue.
Anyway, while he"s dating this chick (named Knife) he dreams about (yeah, not weird at all) and meets another chick (Ramona, which is two letters off the name of one of my deodorant brands. The letters that are off? EX. This will make more sense in a minute) who... wait. I lost my train of thought. That was a frickin" long parenthesis interlude.
So he meets this other chick who he decides he wants, but doesn"t tell the first chick that he"s over her. Something something he breaks up eventually and drama happens.

Aaaaanyway, so this other chick comes with baggage. Like, super baggage (one in the form of Superman) in that he has to fight off her seven evil exes (and there"s the sense!). The exes consist of: Bollywood fire hands man, Hollywood skater guy, Super psychic bass player, Lesbian ninja chick, Techno Japanese twins and finally, Megamusicproducer smiley guy.

Battles are ridiculously over the top, but you begin to expect it with all the comicbook like effects that occur throughout the movie.

Overall, the movie is great! If I had to pick at things individually, I"d say there were quite a few flaws, but meh, it was a hilarious movie, so go with that!

TL;DR guy, two girls, seven exes, good fighting movie.

The Return of the... Von.

So its been a while since my last post. I have a feeling there are far too many posts that begin like that...

Just leaving a quick note to say that I am aware I have a blog and I will indeed still be blogging all the interesting things that happen in the zzz....

I"m sorry, I may have nodded off there. Long sentences are long.

"Hi!" to all the new followers! Sorry this blog is so boring...