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Medical matters: 28 July 2005
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Bits and pieces of a very battered medical student. Thursday, July 28, 2005. Man are inherently selfish. Maybe it is the inevitable consequences of evolution - perhaps it is the selfish gene that made us such a successful race. Can somebody be totally selfless? I guess the answer is no. Why, you might ask. To be totally honest, I do not yet have a very logical arguement to present on this matter, but here are two points worth considering:. 2 Consider for a second, what is selfishness? However, it is obvi...
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Medical matters: 17 August 2005
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Bits and pieces of a very battered medical student. Wednesday, August 17, 2005. New sister site launched! A new sister site has been launched today:. Think your medical knowledge is up to scratch? Try this and see if it can fill in any gaps in your knowledge. Posted by Corpus callosum at 1:22 am. Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.". London, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. New sister site launched! He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep; wake him.
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Medical matters: 05 August 2005
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Bits and pieces of a very battered medical student. Friday, August 05, 2005. Corpus started on his eye attachment yesterday and met a very chatty surgeon. This guy talks! One thing he said, which I think is quite interesting, is his opinion on what makes a good surgeon. It's not how quickly you can do a cataract surgery that determines if you're a good surgeon. Ultimately it's the end results that counts - how well a patient can see, and how well were the complications (if at all) managed.". He who knows...
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Medical matters: 08 August 2005
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Bits and pieces of a very battered medical student. Monday, August 08, 2005. Corpus nearly got knocked down by a cyclist today. It happened like this:. To let it pass. Now, at this point, there was a 4 feet gap between me and the curb, and all the space behind me that she could have gone passed. What did the cyclist do? Got really undecisive when she saw me, swaying from one side to the other, but carried on cycling at 30 mph anyway. And aimed directly at me! Exactly why she said that still baffles me.
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Medical matters: 03 October 2005
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Bits and pieces of a very battered medical student. Monday, October 03, 2005. What with the modernisation of medical career, every future doctor is now ranked not according to his ability to heal, but on how well he or she can complete an application form. Example of application form:. 1 Give 2 examples of your academic achievements and their significance towards your application. Use no more than 75 words in each example. 4 Give an example from your undergraduate course showing your teamwork skills.
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Surgical Facts: August 2005
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Little quick things that you pick up during wardround, in the theatres and in the outpatient clinics. Tuesday, August 16, 2005. Taking A History in Nose. Ok, same again here. just think of the functions of our NOSE. Nasal discharge postnasal drip. Loss of smell) / hyposmia. Reduced smell) / cacosmia. Unpleasant smell detected by others) / Ozaena. Otalgia, hearing loss, cracking etc.). Posted by cauda equina @ 5:04 AM. Taking A History in Ears. These are the questions you need to ask for EARS. Signs of cl...
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Medical matters: 02 August 2005
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Bits and pieces of a very battered medical student. Tuesday, August 02, 2005. Having been on a surgical firm for the past week, Corpus found out some more disturbing facts about the NHS - my trust does not have shoe-covers! On the first day of the firm I asked them for some shoe-covers for going into the theatre - I do not have my own theatre shoes. The reply I got was staggering - the trust no longer purchases shoe-covers and that I should just go into the theatres with my bare, naked outside shoes!
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Medical matters: 15 August 2005
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Bits and pieces of a very battered medical student. Monday, August 15, 2005. This is a bit of an old news. But apparently we're going be out of jobs. According to this article, a third of junior doctors have nowhere to go after their PRHO year. This is just great, isn't it? I sincerely hopes that it's going to get sorted out by the time I get to this situation. The future is looking grimmer by the day. Somebody reminds me why I wanted to do medicine in the first place? Posted by Corpus callosum at 1:06 am.
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Medical matters: 11 August 2005
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Bits and pieces of a very battered medical student. Thursday, August 11, 2005. Posted by Corpus callosum at 10:51 pm. Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.". Corpus looked into no less than 20 pairs of eyes today. If the eye is window of the soul, than ophthalmologists are definitely atheists. Not to mention that in the finals you're always asked to look into patient's eyes with that lousy piece of equipment known as the ophthalmoscope. You have kiss the patients all over t...