Wake Up

It's been the ultimate experience spending 5 solid days at a General Practitioner's (GP) clinic. No offense, but I seriously didn't think life as a GP was that great. The GP clinic I went to was probably the most unconventional clinic but one heck of a clinic that totally rawks. Being stuck in Seremban, you seriously wouldn't think there would be such a clinic that existed. I guess i'm still pretty much in awe of the docs who run the clinic. Its basically a family business managed by 3 brothers which makes it all the more wicked. Since it was almost 90% Chinese speaking, i think i've become more of an ah beng than i have been in my past 1.5 years stuck in this freagin small town. Suddenly you just start to speak Mandarin and Cantonese as if you knew it inside out when you were literally a freagin 'banana' for almost your entire life. Totally wicked. I'm pretty sure learning about life and other crazy stuff at this clinic was definitely more useful than the first 3 weeks in Family Med where you are just confined to Fam med, Fam med and Fam med. Boring.

As we discussed about life and medicine, it was pretty obvious that we (Dawson, Shaggy and Myself) were going to be smacked right in the face when the doc asked us where we were going to be doing our housemanship in a years time. A year??? Yup... that's a year alright. 365 days. Suddenly you just realise how incompetent you are even though you can answer almost every darn question fired at you by the doc about management and medication. Somehow the question of responsibility comes into play and everything changes. Am I good enough to be a doc? We only learn 20% of stuff in medical school while another 80% will be rapidly learned during our years as a houseman and medical officer. That makes me pretty kosong up there at the moment even if i can explain what Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is to you word for word. I guess life is not as straight forward as it sounds. God willing i'll have the humility to learn as much as I can and have a desire to learn.

Well, it's not all gloom and doom. I'm quite sure many of my seniors in Sem 10 are just on the verge of smiling and giving out a sigh of relief after 5 painstakingly long years. It's an achievement in it's on right for sure. I believe housmanship will just be another challenge in life that us medic people have to face to make us competent to face bigger challenges ahead. It's the end of 5 years of divine torture and the beginning of a permanent life of serving others selflessly to the point that self worth may no longer be of any worth at all. In many ways, it's just gonna be self sacrifice. At the end of the day, doing it to please ourselves will never make it worthwhile unless we do it with a purpose, which is ultimately to serve the Lord that people may see Him in us.

Strangely, I'm not sure why i'm prematurely talking so much about finishing med school when there's still a freagin long year to go. It's probably just a sign that i'm gonna miss loadsa my seniors who have helped me through as a junior. Without these people, life as a junior in clinical school would be something like a chicken running without a head... (Probably not the best analogy :P) I guess i've got a long list of people that i'd like to thank but these are the ones i'm totally indebted to:


C1/05

Lim Wei Shung... the Haji who is a Christian and one heck of an awesome dude
Tan Ru Wei... the eternal slacker who still manages to do well
Tan Bo Ren... the guy who speaks and lives Cardio in and out
Kenneth... another Cardio and ECG expert
Isaac... the study smart king
David... another study smart king
Prakash... football maestro
Vijay... another football maestro
Genevieve... ultimate future surgeon and sister in Christ
Jill... Paeds maestro and ultimate sister in Christ
Yu Tat... for the ultimate gold standard in photostat notes

C2/05

Siew Lian... ganas and forever 'Joy'ful woman
Sasha... just Sasha

I think the list wll go on and onlar. Either way, a word of thanks to everyone who is my senior. You people rock.

Aights, my fingers tired already. Adios.

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