Saturday, November 20, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Shout it out!
Just in case anyone reading this blog (thats right, all 6 or so of you) was interested in crafty things (being making objects, rather than plotting deceptions), a friend has a great blog as well as an etsy store for all her amazing goods! Check it out!
Monday, November 8, 2010
Translating Medicine
Had a fun day today.
Taught a friend how to do an ABG, so that completes my "see one, do one, teach one" achievement for that (ding!).
I also had my first job as a consulting translator!
I say "job" yet I wasn"t paid.
In fact, it was a random intern/RMO/reg who happened to see me, asked if I spoke mandarin, and asked me to translate a few sentence for him. After a few words, he realised there was no way he was going to remember what I was saying, so he asked me to follow him.
In the waiting room of the AMU, there stood a young man of Chinese origin.
[Hello] he says to me (square brackets indicating mandarin).
[Hello] I reply.
I turn to the doctor who looks at me with a smile on his face. "This is a good start." He comments.
He begins to talk to the man. I manage enter some kind of trance in which I can somehow translate what is said.
The man appears satisfied and leaves with the nurse and the doctor.
In an amused daze, I return to retrieve my bag and books from the doctor's office.
The doctor returns and asks me to translate one more thing, he needs me to tell the man that he needs to hang around to get a CT scan of his lungs.
I agree. I then wonder how to say "scan" in mandarin. I then wonder how to say "lungs" in mandarin.
After pausing for a moment, I begin [The doctor wants you to wait here. They want to use a machine to look inside your upper body.]
The man looks at me like I'm an idiot, but somehow understands what I'm trying to tell him. He agrees and waits in the waiting room.
I feel so accomplished.
Taught a friend how to do an ABG, so that completes my "see one, do one, teach one" achievement for that (ding!).
I also had my first job as a consulting translator!
I say "job" yet I wasn"t paid.
In fact, it was a random intern/RMO/reg who happened to see me, asked if I spoke mandarin, and asked me to translate a few sentence for him. After a few words, he realised there was no way he was going to remember what I was saying, so he asked me to follow him.
In the waiting room of the AMU, there stood a young man of Chinese origin.
[Hello] he says to me (square brackets indicating mandarin).
[Hello] I reply.
I turn to the doctor who looks at me with a smile on his face. "This is a good start." He comments.
He begins to talk to the man. I manage enter some kind of trance in which I can somehow translate what is said.
The man appears satisfied and leaves with the nurse and the doctor.
In an amused daze, I return to retrieve my bag and books from the doctor's office.
The doctor returns and asks me to translate one more thing, he needs me to tell the man that he needs to hang around to get a CT scan of his lungs.
I agree. I then wonder how to say "scan" in mandarin. I then wonder how to say "lungs" in mandarin.
After pausing for a moment, I begin [The doctor wants you to wait here. They want to use a machine to look inside your upper body.]
The man looks at me like I'm an idiot, but somehow understands what I'm trying to tell him. He agrees and waits in the waiting room.
I feel so accomplished.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Neurology is awesome!
Just came out of a neurology grand round (where nobody could diagnose the patient) and a neurology tute.
I think I blacked out for the last hour because I"m not entirely sure what happened. I remember enjoying myself and laughing lots, but cannot recall anything educational.
I have some quotes though!
Fun times.
I think I blacked out for the last hour because I"m not entirely sure what happened. I remember enjoying myself and laughing lots, but cannot recall anything educational.
I have some quotes though!
"So a young woman in emergency that everyone believes is in a coma, but you see her looking around, its a fake coma. You can't look around if you're in a coma.""Everytime you turn over there but you're still looking over here, that'd be a weird sort of life.""Glasgow coma scale is for drongos, it just tells the surgeons how fast they need to drive in.""Mini mental state, how often is it done on an aphasic patient? Very often. it just shows the resident's mini mental state is less than the patient."
Fun times.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Where did this come from? Oh yeah...
A month without making a blog post? That doesn"t sound like m- oh wait.
It totally does.
I blame the surgical careers evening.
Anyway, where was I?
Oh yes, I was blogging.
I am blogging.
This is pretty much the worst blog post ever.
A few topics to discuss in summarised form:
1. The past month.
2. The next month.
3. Exams.
So anyway, its been a vaguely interesting month.
3 weeks on the respiratory ward flew by pretty quickly as I managed to see a certain respiratory consultant as little as possible while trying to be as productive as possible in order to gain the marks on my in progress training report. Not that it mattered as the registrar left in the middle of the week leaving me to get my ITPR done by the new reg. Such wasted effort.
Saw some interesting cases, the highlight probably the tuberculosis patient with zero clinical findings. So that sort of outlines how exciting respiratory was...
The week on cardiac care was... Yeah. So we just throw 5 drugs at people and let them go home with varying amounts of work leave. Exciting. Saw an angio done though and a stent inserted. Wanted to see the "full metal jacket" stenting but decided it just wasn"t worth standing around for.
Now though, I"m on the AMU! The newly constructed acute medical unit is all shiny and white and has lots of short stay patients that I can pretty much just ignore continuity of care because they get dished out elsewhere within 48 hours! Yay!
We"ll see how excited I am with 3 more weeks of AMU though.
Exams in 4 weeks. Getting nervous. There isn"t much more to say on that...
Oh, and I thought this was a fun, valid plan for OSCE stations:
It totally does.
I blame the surgical careers evening.
Anyway, where was I?
Oh yes, I was blogging.
I am blogging.
This is pretty much the worst blog post ever.
A few topics to discuss in summarised form:
1. The past month.
2. The next month.
3. Exams.
So anyway, its been a vaguely interesting month.
3 weeks on the respiratory ward flew by pretty quickly as I managed to see a certain respiratory consultant as little as possible while trying to be as productive as possible in order to gain the marks on my in progress training report. Not that it mattered as the registrar left in the middle of the week leaving me to get my ITPR done by the new reg. Such wasted effort.
Saw some interesting cases, the highlight probably the tuberculosis patient with zero clinical findings. So that sort of outlines how exciting respiratory was...
The week on cardiac care was... Yeah. So we just throw 5 drugs at people and let them go home with varying amounts of work leave. Exciting. Saw an angio done though and a stent inserted. Wanted to see the "full metal jacket" stenting but decided it just wasn"t worth standing around for.
Now though, I"m on the AMU! The newly constructed acute medical unit is all shiny and white and has lots of short stay patients that I can pretty much just ignore continuity of care because they get dished out elsewhere within 48 hours! Yay!
We"ll see how excited I am with 3 more weeks of AMU though.
Exams in 4 weeks. Getting nervous. There isn"t much more to say on that...
Oh, and I thought this was a fun, valid plan for OSCE stations:
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