It's genius!

Okay, here's a plan to get rid of the common cold forever (plus a whole bunch of other nasties).

It's pretty simple. Everybody stay where you are. For a month. Don't go out. Don't go to work. Don't do aything but stay at your place of residence. If everybody stays home, then nobody can pass on the infection. Once the last of the people sitting at home have burnt out their colds and become immune, we should all now be disease free.

Too easy...

 (Except from the chaos that results in the mean time - but then we'll all have something serious to complain about rather than a case of the sniffles. Everyone needs to make sacrifices for the greater good.)

It just surprises me that nobody has tried this earlier.

Clinical Vignette

A 26 year old medical student is forced to get a Hepititis A vaccine by his medical school. As he is also planning a trip to Thailand, he desires  a vaccination for Typhoid. He presents to his general practitioner and complains of feeling fiscally drained. As part of a mini-mental state exam, she consults the chart on the wall she asks him
"What price do you put on pain?"

Demonstrating his seventh and second, third, fourth and sixth cranial nerves to be functional, he squints at the numbers as well. The patient does not display any signs of acalculia or dysphasia.

"You see, there is a combined vaccine. It's one hundred and ten dollars. But we buy in bulk here and the two vaccines  given separately are only ninety two." She continued.

"I'm tight!" He declares. And a consensus is reached. Two shots it will be so he can lay on a beach.

12 hours later the patients presents to his couch. Symmetrical deltoid pain, malaise and mild wallet lightning persist.

Quick update. Not entertaining in any way

Can't decide what's worse. Being such a poor time manager that may blog updates are reduced to complaints about how busy and doomed I am. Or not blagging. It's hard to choose. So I've chosen both.

Devo about Cadel though. Still respect the man for not giving up! Such a phenomenal athlete.

I'm ready for a holiday.

The wrist bone's connected to the... err

I'm out of my depth.


Wait there's not even a wrist bone! Why!

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.