Quit recycling anatomical names! Pffft.

We're on to the musculoskeletal block now. That's all very exciting, because I was sooo sick of neuro. Ironically neuro is probably the thing I'll use most in my future. But it's nice to deal with a subject that has facts again!

You always know that when your topic for the week is called 'multiple facial fractures.' You're going to find it entertaining.

It's kind of crazy really. With only six weeks left of traditional book learning, I'm starting to realise that the only thing I haven't really looked at are the knees and feet. And that's coming up soon. Eeeep! Now to spend the next couple years piecing it all together in the real world!

I'm getting more and more excited about moving to the sticks. I don't know where yet, but I'm really curious to find out more about the options. Happy happy joy joy!

The other good thing about this week has been the number of times where I've been able to hold up a skull and pretend I have a role in Hamlet.

Trust me, that was my first and most likely last reference to Shakespeare.

Rehab.

Hi!
Welcome to my blog. It's much the same as it usually is, but now with more drug trips!

I've been sick. For a month now. I was sick, resorted to a course of Augmentin, got better for a week (kinda) and now I'm sick again. And now I'm best friends with Doxycycline. I am so sick of being sick. It's ironic. But my lymph nodes and my head don't usually compete for space at the top of my neck.

In other news, I went through the system of applying for third year placements. It was exciting to plan for the future, but annoying that the computer didn't necessarily agree with my intentions. I volunteered for a pilot group, but got denied. My second preference in the sticks was also passed over. In the end I was assigned a spot right here in at FMC. I was a bit annoyed by that, getting my 4th preference, which I didn't really want. Whilst another person got the place I wanted on their fourth preference. Whatever the algorithm is, it doesn't love me! I'm not going to complain though, it works to satisfy the greatest number of people and that's how it all pans out.

Fortunately another person also got their 4th preference, in the Hills /Mallee /Fleurieu region. So we've arranged to swap and I'll hopefully be heading South for a year. Though not that far South I guess! I'll end up somewhere between Port Elliott and Mannum if all goes to plan.

I'll have more to say on the issue in the future I guess, but in the end a good educational opportunity should come forth.

So that's my update. Short and sweet. I'll resume more regular blogging now that I'm back from a short week off.

Bye now!

This man is beyond help

I cant decide. I can't decide!

 I thought I wanted to head to the mount and see the "world." But now they are running a pilot program for 8 students at Flinders.  Essentially you stalk patients from the moment they arrive to see if they are clinically interesting. But it would be heaps more contact, heaps more acute medicine and possibly heaps more my style. But there are so many details that arent sorted out, and it could go gluteus superiorly.

Ungh. I thought I knew what I wanted, but the last minute has rocked up as usual and screwed it all up. The last minute is a rebel thought in a black jacket made of uncertainty and it wants to corrupt you and your naive friends.

What a jerk.