Whoa, I am back!

Finally finally finally. I am able to access internet since god-knows-how-many-days ago. And now, I've got only an hour plus to do my studies and Bloggy!!! *sigh*

Oh wells, this is my 4th day at the Neurology department.

Interestingly enough, I am given 2 patients to manage all by myself, and of course every decision that I make needs to be co-signed by my supervisor, the CR (chief resident). In fact, I was in the kelam-kabut state on the whole monday and tuesday morning, not knowing wot to do. I was literally blank!!! In addition, they are too tech-oriented for me to follow. The hospital is practically paperless.

On another unpleasantly interesting note, they hardly do physical examinations here, starting from the clerks, interns, residents and even the young specialists. Actually I was quite stunned. However, I decided to learn from their strong points, i.e. one of them is of course the technology.

Sometimes I just feel that some of us (both doctors as well as student-doctors) have become too specialized that our patients, on the other end of the spectrum suffer because they do not get treated as a whole. Do patients get really well if we spend more than 90% of our time reading MRI and CTs? Personally, I dont think so.

Try putting ourselves in their shoes, wot do we expect of our doctors? I strongly feel that there is this non-white and non-black area in the midst of black and white. The same goes for EBM and humanity in the practice of medicine. Strike a balance, mate!!!



Cheers,
Jing. See ya soon!!!