Loves and Cares..

Recently, James posted up a Note in his facebook talking about a single mother patient with end-stage breast cancer who has a 5 year old daughter. She had settle with her daughter adoption before she is in her critical condition. I had saw this patient 3 months ago in the palliative team. At that time, what this patient was planning and doing is all for the benefits of her daughter. She wish to leave for few months more in order to celebrate her daughter birthday. Just before she is going to sleep for a long time, she wish to be discharged with all the supportive machines disconnected so that she can leave a lovely impression to her daughter before she passed away! What a touching real life story decribing how great a mother can be!

Today, I see how bad a daughter in law and children can be! Patient is an old age lady with a fracture of the hip (neck of femur). She needs a surgery and her condition is not encouraging as she had heart problem. So, the risk of anaesthesia will be extremely high. It happens that the daughter in law is the only one there. According to her, she is representing the whole family and she need to ask in details so that she can "REPORT" to the this patient's children. Can't really imagine that she use the word "REPORT" as those children never care about their own mother at all. Probably they are busy. But, I think if they concerns about their mother or loves their mother, they would have come to the hospital to see her condition instead of listening to the great reporter's REPORT! What ashame of this attitude!

Things become more irritating is when we inform her about the risk of anaesthetic, it seems like it doesn't bother her at all. She said she underwent a heart operation 2 years ago and same things had been told to her 2 years ago. Her mother-in-law remains ok after the operation and nothing happened. Come on, I do not expect an old lady will remain as fit as 2 years ago! I am sure she is weak enough then only she slipped down when she try to stand up. If she would had strong enough, sure she wouldn't had fractured her hip.

Sometimes, I really felt that involvement in medical professions does allow me to see more things. It allows me to see how beautiful a human can be and how ugly a human can be! As usual, I do felt that a sense of loves and cares would be good enough to provide sufficient moral supports to the patient.

In certain occasions, we do see patient brought in from nursing home/old-folks home. The funny parts is their children seems to know nothing at all when we tried to get some past-medical history or history of presenting illness. Huh.. really feels that this community needs more LOVES and CARES....

Being A Temporary Mechanic

Things are different nowadays. We have to learn and know many things. Being a medical student also must know a bit a bit about a car.. hopefully next time not only can treat human, but also can treat a car. If being a doctor cannot cari makan, still can work as a part-time mechanic ma.

Haha! This reminds me on my SPA (suruhanjaya perkhidmatan awam) interview. I was asked by the DATO: "do you think economic recession can affect you? and are you really to TANAM SAYUR when malaysia have too many doctors and no more vacancies for young doctor???" huh...

Within 2 weeks, i had involve in 2 incidents about car. The very first one was a punctured tyre. My car was PUNCTURED in PJ. huh.. then ended up have to change the tyre by the roadside. luckily, the rain started once i am done with it. huh!

The next incident is not my car la.. but it was my neighbour's car. Sam's car ended up with a problem with his water tank. We were just came back from supper and the car ended up with lots of smokes in front of college. Sounds like recently a lot of smokes... sure Chuan Huan will understand what i mean..

On the next morning, we did some physical examination and investigation. We think there is a leak on one of the major vessels(main paip) where the water flow into the heart (engine) from the peripheral (water tank). So, we were very happy and snapped some photos and bring those photos to a mechanic in PJ. The uncle was really nice. We presented the finding to him and he said it is a simple procedure. He just gave us a suitable paip and ask us to change the paip on our own. If really cannot then only call him. by the way, he let us go with his spare parts before we pay him! huh..

After 45 minutes of operation, both of us also stained badly with the oil inside the engine compartment. And finally, we manage to cut of the main vessels and change with a new vessels. The car has finally gone back to normal.

This is the main reason of the SMOKEs...

A trip to Thien Hou Temple

Although we had came back to UM, but most of us are still in the Chinese New Year mood. We decided to go to the Thien Hou Temple last night as we have nothing much to do in the hostel. The traffic near the temple was really jam and we decided to park our car at the bottom of the hill and walk all the way up to the temple.

It is a really nice place to visit during chinese new year. The decorated the temple so well. In Thien Hou temple, you really have the "Chinese New Year mood". Haha!

Sorry la. Although it is an Ox year, but i still like this mouse really much. Haha! Among 5 of us, I am the only 1 born in the year of mice.

When you step up to the level 2 in the temple, you see lots of red lantern.

So far, I had been few temples which decorates the temple very nice during chinese new year festival. Thien Hou temple in KL, Dong Chan Shi in Jenjarum, and Kek Lok Si in Penang. If you happen to be nearby any of these temple, go and visit at night time and sure you will get lots of nice photos. Hehe!

After all, we manage to go for a pray! hehe! Pray for a better year.. hehe! Probably this is what we call as.. 临时抱佛脚。。。haha!

Chinese Niu Year

Time passed really fast. We had come to the end of second day of Chinese New Year 2009. This year is an Ox year and we do hope that these ox year will bring great fortune to us.

Spending the past 2 days with lots of gathering. Perhaps, Chinese New Year is one of the most pleassure time for any gathering that we wish to have. This included a gathering with friends which we had never met for years. Not only that, it is also a great chance for all the family members and relatives to be gather under one roof. For me, Chinese New Year is no longer an event for Angpow collection. It had become an important event for us to stay connected with my friends and relatives no matter how far we were distributed throughout the nation/world.

OF course, we will normally spend time for gathering with secondary school mates. This year, i also manage to spend some time for gathering of my primary schoolmate and few friends from Buddhist camp PBHP few years ago. It's tiring but something enjoyable. Happy to see all of them. Kind of have a feeling that they are de-stress for me.. haha! Anyway, may all of my family members, relatives, friends that i know, friends that i might know, and friends that i will never know in life to stay healthy and happy... =) Happy Niu Year ya.. Moo....

Postgraduate Talk in 6th college

Just came back from a postgraduate talk in 6th college. This year they had invited Prof Patrick Tan and Prof Lee Way Seah. Overall, i would say that it is a great talk.

Prof Patrick was really informative and gave us a lot of information regarding the future career. However, what was really inspiring was to ask us enjoy the journey instead of rushing to be a specialist. Being good to the nurses are good as they will ended up be our guardians when we are Houseman.

Prof Lee who is our UM seniors, had give an overall picture for the path to be a specialist especially becoming a paediatrician. With his inspiring and creative way of presentation, the talk became more interesting.

Both of them had delivered the same message to us, which is "GO SLOW, AND ENJOY.." After the talk, really felt stress up because we are a step clearer to our future career. It is another long running journey for us. Passing MBBS is not the end, but it is a starts for a new journey.. No matter how tough is the work, the most important is to enjoy the journey..

Disappointment..

As we are nearer to exam, I felt more stress. Stress not only due to the exam, but also the responsibility that we are going to bear in the future. Becoming a doctor is not an easy work. But, this has been what i am looking forward. I think a great responsiblity in handling patients is necessary or basic requirement in this career. Some how, this will become a great challenge for everyone in order to conduct a good practice.
2 years ago, the dean of faculty had told me how much UM medical students nowadays are lacking in their responsibility and I just ignore it. But, i started to understand what he said at this point of time. It has been quite sad when i look around and notice quite a number of students who always take things for granted and never volunteer to take up responsibilities.
Yesterday, an idiot had just push all her responsibility to me and ended up i was scolded for no reason because she didn't do her work properly. It is a norm in my group for pre-call student to be in-charge in blood taking for patients in that particular wards after the morning chart rounds. Any urgent blood will be taken by the post-call students. Who knows, this post-call idiot who didn't attend her call the day before and ended up rushing for her patient reviews before chart round did not take an urgent blood for that day. The doctor had asked her to do so and she just ignore it until 10 minutes later when the ward called me (pre-call) and i promise to rush in within 10 minutes. When i arrived, the "GREAT MO" scolded me straight away for something that i don't know.
With that, I throw my temper towards the idiot and she asked me: "Why do you scold me? You should scold another post-call student (who went to cover the whole ward the day before)." I am so shock!!! WOW.. how can she push all the things to others like that? She don't have any sense of responsibilities at all? Wonder how people can work in a team with her in the future.
Responsibility is not an uncommon issue in my badge. No one want to pick up responsibility to be a leader is so so so common. Even though everyone had agreed to do rotation and each one become leader for at least 1 posting, there are still peoples who always tried to sneak away from this responsibility. Even if you had pointed them out, they will still give tonnes of nonsense reasons or manipulate others so that he/she can sneaked away. Most important is in the end of the days, most of them makes the most comments regarding how BAD the leader was.
I really hope that no one will carry this attitude further in their career. Not only in medical profession, but others as well. We are adult enough to make wise decision and I am sure we are adult enought to carry the responsibility that we should have.

A new START for A new YEAR

Every one like that say: It is a new year, let's hope for a better year. Well, I would say that this is a very optimistic way of thinking and it is really good. We must always live with hope, rite? If not, will be ended up as HOPELESS person. Haha!
2009, a brand new year, with a brand new hope and lots of plans, and some on-going changes in my life. First, have to finish my MBBS exam and graduate as a doctor. Then, have to live time to fullness. Appreciate every moment that i can spend with my family and friends. And also hope that I can try to do something for the benefits of Teluk Intan community or the community within my service hospital. Of course, I really hope that I can become active in PBHB and Tang Soo Do again.
Anyway, the most important things that I wish for, is WORLD PEACE!!! It is such a painful feelings to see the changes in the world. It is painful to see the War, Terroristism, Criminals, Environment Pollutions. How many years left we can keep on hoping if there is no WORLD?
A new Year of 2009. I wish it could be a new START of every one in the world. Happy New Year, My Friends!!!