a bloody good block

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Date: 29 August 2006 06:51:29

So I have my finished my learnage on respiration and associated diseases. As of yesterday, we started Haematology. This is a "different" block because it's held at our clinical schools (ie. hospitals). However my clinical school is not based at my hospital, so I am spending four days per week at a large area hospital and the other day at my normal hospital. It's all a bit strange really... I would have thought that the reason to be at the hospital would be so that we could see what haematologists do and stuff. But that seems to be a "special option for those particularly interested"... so that's odd. But then as I am still at the end of a virus, I would not be welcome in a ward full of immunocompromised people anyway.

I will hopefully do some poking around in various wards during the five weeks of haematology but at the moment I'm just settling in and madly trying to catch up with my respiratory notes in my spare time!

In other news, I went to work on Sunday and it was a bit weird. There were:
* At least 12 cases of conjunctivitis
* Two cases of impetigo
* A beautiful moment when my pharmacy student who I'd been nagging at all day about how to counsel people regarding penicillins asked someone if they were allergic to penicillins and they said "um yes, actually I am!!" and I saw a priceless look of surprise on the student's face as he realised why I had been nagging him all day.
* A very poorly altered script for a morphine like drug.
* An amusing phone call to the doctor whose script had been toyed with ("That bastard!! I don't want to give him anything now!!")
* Frustration with trying to get the new modem to behave. I think it's broken. Well the reset button is broken anyway! And it's forgotten its IP address. Stupid thing.
* I wasn't yelled at by anyone!!