Ladida...

haha... it's 2.45 pm and i'm back in the lib typing blog again...

went for a Xray-patho Gastro meeting today... they flashed a couple of ERCP's which i had no clue abt except for e demonstration of plenty of bile duct strictures which complicated liver transplantation in a couple of patients. think i gotto work on catching their accents... maybe i just hafta adapt to it slowly... coz sometimes they'll say something which i cun catch and i'll totally miss wat the whole topic's about. ARGH!! and too paiseh to interrupt n ask for a repetition... but thankfully, i'm catching more stuff today compared to the liver transplantation meeting on e 1st day. so maybe by next week, i'll be more accustomed to the accent.

clinic session was pretty interesting... as usual, i'm gonna harp on e fact tt i get to see weird conditions!!! those written in e angmoh textbooks but not found in NUH or SGH wards!! hahaha!! think this elective's becoming really fun! saw haemochromatosis (for the uninitiated, it's this genetic disorder which results in increased iron absorption from the intestine and hence iron deposition in multiple organs resulting in damage of these organs)...

gosh n the patients here r really well-informed and motivated to guard their health... so unlike those back home... for eg. this guy just discovered he has Hep C and was told he needs to curtail his alcohol intake and the best is achieve abstinence. and in e clinic, he told e dr abt his plans for dropping the addiction... like how he's planning to just drink 3 days instead of everyday nowadays... and week by week, he'll keep reducing until he's totally off it. wow!! such a guai patient...

think back home, e dr will be teaching those plans to the patients but most of them wun listen! same goes for e diabetic patients here... i think i overheard ken saying tt e patients he sees in the clinic also knows a lot abt their condition and really strive to modify their lifestyles so they control their diabetes.

had free food just now... haha! they haf really nice free lunches here sponsored by the pharmaceutical companies! really good stuff even... salmon and ham sandwiches!