A Few Idle Ramblings


Well it was a great D&D =P Hopefully my last if you guys know what I mean *heh heh*. Completely threw my diet off with a personal Earthquake at Swensens last night and yet Nadia says "No! You dont need to lose weight. Your the only guy i know who says that!" =P Thanks for the vote of confidence though!

Heard off the grapevine that a person I've known for years recently left our med school. Which kinda caused me to sit down and do some serious pondering *thinking is a skill which my current evolutionary stage is incapable of doing*. Why do we choose medicine? Its an often stated fact that 50% of the cohort will eventually become GPs. Do we dare face crushed hope and dreams when told we will not be able to specialise? That at the end of 10 long years we face the prospects of setting up shop and hope that people fall sick so that we might have more people visiting our clinics? A law friend of mine in UK is studying to be a medical prosecutor. When asked why she smiles and says "So I can see the look on your face when you get sued lah!". Which kinda worries me? Cos as Hoobastank says, I'm not a perfect person, and I know sooner or later I'm gonna make a booboo (self sensorship in place cos i know chiobus read this blog), and get my butt sued for some reason or another, aka the innocent act of leaving a scapel in my patient (which I hope never happens).

And yet as I type, I catch myself thinking of flipping through my mama Robbins. What makes us spend hours on end reading book after book, cramming bits of information that we might never use? At the end of the day, medicine is a calling. The study of medicine is fueled by passion, by the desire to serve. So what if I cant specialise? GPs get to see smiles on the faces of their patients, and actually spend more than 5 minutes talking to them =p. Sure its a long course, and it may take a little longer for some of us ... but as Bruce Wayne's dad said in Batman Begins "Why do we fall?" and we all echo, "So we can learn to pick ourselves up". I've done my share of falling and I daresay it isnt the end of the world for me. I've picked myself up, with the help and support of family and friends who have made m2 a nice fluffy place to roll around in. Just wanna end of by saying, if it all seems too much, just walk into any hospital and take a look around. Every single doctor there has been through what we're going through and how many professions out there grants you respect, $$$ and a warm fuzzy feeling at the same time? =P

*Bleh that was an unusual bout of sanity ... Wonder whats on HBO*

Video below is a Parody of Final Fantasy: Advent Children... if you havent watched it yet, I think I've the DVD around somewhere ...