Apprentice

There is no short cut, nor "royal road," to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe. -John Abernethy

I feel myself becoming worse and worse since the time when I was a medical student. When i was a final year student, I could treat a patient coming in with hypertension without a second pause. I knew what to prescribe when a patient complains of difficulty breathing, what tests to order if a patient has a lump that has been bugging him. Now I stutter, and I stumble.

Is housemanship making me more.. Well, stupid? The system here makes you so focused on a particular branch of medicine that I'm starting to forget the rest. And the sad part is I used to be so in love with Medicine. As in, internal medicine...now that knowledge is slowly slipping from me.

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Oh dear, it's that wonderful time of the year. Christmas has come and gone, families reunited, and the new year will soon be upon us!!

I'm adjusting fairly well to the orthopaedics department now, things have become slightly better since I first started. I know how to do things around the ward, and the most important thing is that I can be depended on!!

If i may be so bold...... I think I love my job!! ;) its hours are long, the work tedious, but I somehow like that I can do the job around the ward.