My belly hurts

Perhaps one of the most important things for learning medicine, is to get sick yourself.  I find myself surrounded by people with the empathy of a starving rat, and it disturbs me that these are the people who will be treating my friends and family at some point in time.  Some of them are young, and some of them are just plain unable to see how sickness can change someones outlook on life.  If you can believe it, some have just never truly been sick.

This is not to say I have ever been deathly ill.  I just believe that I can put myself into a patients shoes, and gain a little bit of perspective into how they're feeling.

People are scared when they are sick.  They get angry, they cry and they can also deny what's going on.

What's strange is that students seem to forget the family of the sick person.  They hurt too.

A nice play to spend eternity

What annoys me is that when I die, I won't get to live here.  Some people have all the luck.

Assignments

I've never really been good at doing assignments.  I've been okay at getting good marks... just not actually doing them.  I always leave stuff to the night before, the hour before.... the few measly minutes before.  My wife is the one who gets the crankiest at this.  And my sister of course.  It seems some people feel that if you can do better than a middling mark... why not try your hardest?  My opinion is, that if I am getting middling marks, why try harder?

I wonder if that means I'm a contrarian just for the sake of it?

A lot of the time, when I think back on it, I am a lot like this photo.  I like standing in mud, because it's fun.  It's not what I'm supposed to be doing, but it sure beats watering the garden!

Getting colder

I start on my O&G rotation on Monday.  It's a little bit scary the thought of catching babies.  There is going to be a lot of blood, and bodily fluids that I've been are great for ruining shoes.  Luckily, the shoes that I got have a lifetime guarantee.... so let's hope that the distributor makes good on that.

One thing I have noticed, is that it is going to get really hard to wake-up soon.  I don't do well in the cold.  I come from a hot country, and a hot state in that country.  The thought of waking up in the dark, in the cold... is just plain depressing.  At least I have a warm wife.

MIssing the good life

It's interesting when you think back on the moments in your life, and there is a part of you that wishes you could go back.  Wishes that you could see the sights that you have seen before.

Of course, you wouldn't be where you are, unless you made the decisions that got you there.  Ahh well

The colours of employment

This is what I see every morning.  I'm not sure it's healthy seeing the sun rise.  I feel somewhat out of touch with life, people and in general, adrift.  Ahh well.

An organised study plan

An example of how I study.  No rhyme, reason or... result. Oops.