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probably this isn't the best time to blog (given exams 2mrw) but anyways..

just got back frm my last day n consultant's @ rheum has just given me a 5. that was good actually. i mean.. over the last few days, i have been anxious over the prospect of 2 directors in the hospital (one frm rheumatology & the other frm clinical pharmacology) to give me ? kind of mark. and 2day i was praised at the clinics for making a diagnosis after a history was given by the pt. 'see.. the student can even make the diagnosis. he surpasses me! you've a condition called polymyalgia rheumatica.'

over at clinical pharm, is another director who gives us teaching everyweek & the last one he totally grinded me and the resident with qns; as a consultant who expects the student to know his stuff! i was okay and truly blessed to 've been placed into this department to receive so much teaching on drugs, that i so realise the importance of drug interactions & how fascinating they are in the application to day-to-day clinical prescriptions.

i was answering quite a no. of good qns. and on one, wch probably is a sensible one the resident cud not answer, was the rationale behind the delay of action of warfarin. and as you guess, the half-lives of the clotting factors II, VII, IX and X and when asked wch one had the longest half-life, i answered II and gave him the duration of 60 hrs. the consultant sheet for this will be sent in confidentially.

i can say medical specialties is probably not one of the rotations i feel most comfortable with, altgh its not the hardest. i've never been easy with pleasing consultants, but guess i do know quite a bit of knowledge so that backed me up a bit. i really hope i can get thru the MCQ exam 2mrw.. and also this rotation. its been tiring... then start of a new rotation next week.

2 months 've passed. how fast.. & yet how slow. can't imagine this it.. next 2 months.. then i will be softening my knees, kneeling & bursting out tears. i'll put myself to the test, just for 1 final time. and this is it.

- keith