Friday, January 14, 2005
End of Semester Examination.
Ladies and gentlemen, my dear passengers...
I am pleased to announce that I PASSED!!!! I actually passed. GOD IS GOOD!!!! AMEN!!!! I mean, looking back at the exam time, whew... i was pretty sure I would fail. But God seemed to be telling me over and over again that if i don't get on viva, i will pass. And I sure did. Somehow i knew i would pass, but that slight doubt lurking at the back of my mind... sigh... when will I truly just let go and let God handle everything?
Want to know how I did during the exams? Read on below.
Day one - Short Answers Question (I failed this btw)
The day before I realised that I did not have any Community Medicine notes that I went online and MSN Yee Pei to scan her notes to me. But she doesn't have a scanner so I did not bother to study ComMed and leave it up to God.
As for the exam itself, tt was so bad that I wanted to cry as I read through the questions. All around me I could hear people going "Shit! Shit! Shit!" But I had to admit that I had fun answering some of the questions. I mean you have to do something when you are bored right?
Q: What do you understand by Primary Intention Healing, Secondary Intention Healing?Real Answer: Primary intention wounds are associated with minimal tissue loss and the wounds can be closed easily. Secondary intention wounds are hard to heal and close up, leaving scars.
My answer: Primary intention healing, first intention is to heal, then only we think of what to do. In secondary intention healing, to heal is the 2nd intention, before that we have to do other things for example remove causative agents.
Q: A haemophilia patient is transfused with HIV positive blood. Give 4 psychological aspect he undergoes and explain why.
My answer: Anger - "I have haemophilia. Now I have AIDS. Damn!"
Denial - "No la, cannot be. Must be mistake."
Q: What is perforating veins?
My answer: Veins that perforates.
And I went to Worlds Debating Championship Finals with Sheena and Yee Pei, despite another paper tomorrow. Care la.
Day Two. Objective Structured Practical Exam (I passed this paper with a B+, surprisingly as i tot i did worse here)
I realised again that I did not have any Parasites slides or notes to study. So on the day itself, went to school early and studied Parasites. Thank God for Irene and Shi Ching, for if its not for their last minute cramming of things into my head, I swear I would have failed that paper. But thanks to them, all parasites questions could be answered fairly well.
But then again, I lost 30 marks for 3 questions which I filled with dumb answers. Like the one with a graph of the girls weight flactuating up and down so much and her teeth being so ugly.
Q: What is the eating disorder?
Real Answer: Bulimia
My Answer: Picky eater
Q: Why is her teeth in that condition?
Real Answer: She throws up and the acid effects the teeth.
My Answer: She doesn't like milk, so no calcium. Thus she has ugly teeth.
Then after OSPE, it was like the exam was already over despite the fact that OSCE is the next day. But I did not care. Me, Vasan, YP, Sheena and CK went out for lunch together, we spent the day talking crap. I did not even study when I went home. Started playing MGS3 (which is an awesome game, TZ, really).
Day Three. Objective Structured Clinical Examination (This is the most exciting part of the whole exam, and one of the worst. Passed it tho with a B+. I know its poor, but who the hell cares)
Then the next morning, I only started revising only during quarantine time. I managed to get everything down flat and was quite confident to enter the room. On the way down, I realized I did not have a watch, and managed to talk Ms. Zuhrah Beevi into lending hers to me, which was a lucky thing because there was a pulse rate station.
At first everything was going fine. Dr. Jac was perfect, she was like urging me to hurry up, and i managed to finish with a minute to spare. I went "What? So fast?" After the history taking station, it was another clinical examintion. I opened the door and saw Dr. Juriah. Her face changed as I entered the room. Bad sign. For those who doesn't know why I have bad rapport with her, please read here.
Then I enter the gay's room and that was when everything went down to Hell and never came back up again. When I entered the room, the first thing that came to my mind was, "Who the hell are you?" I greeted the patient and the gay was sitting at the chair in that gay style (you know cross legged and chin resting on hand). He asked me to do liver cirrhosis in that voice that was so gay!
I did not know what to do at first, so I took the hands and did capillary refill. I know it was wrong, but the way he reprimanded me really pissed me off.
Gay: *waving his hand around* Why take capillary refill?
I released the fingers and bullshitted which resulted in more scolding. I finally gave up and released the patients hand. The patient went "Ouch" and I went "What the fuck?" The gay piece of shit started scolding and yelling again.
Throughout the whole thing, he was like "Your friends do like that, why you do like that? You no practice la. Wrong. Wrong." Holy shit, if you have someone yelling at you, you'll start to panic right? I started to lose my temper and argued all the way. Who the hell cares anyway? And when I felt for the bone to do pitting edema, I was FEELING, the patient said "Ouch". That gay bastard started up again and the buzzer went, thank God. I just turned my back and stormed out of the room without even thanking to both patient and doctor.
In my opinion, they deserve no thanks. Fail mah fail, I fucking care ah? To quote CK: "What has 2 thumbs and do not care? ME!" After all, fail one station, lose only one mark. That wrinkled atrophied testicle of a sterile donkey disguised in a poor excuse of a man can go eat shit for all I care. If all gays were like that, no wonder the world stigmatise against them.
I met him again down at CSU, he was with some other lecturers. Greeted all of them except him. To me, he deserve no acknowledgement from me.
The next day, lagi relax. We were playing Chua Tai Ti in the quarantine, eating Suk Yee's mom delicious Maggi Mee goreng. It was like exam is already over.
In OSCE, I nearly had a heart attack when I saw Tin Ong. I began hyperventilating and had to sit myself down before I faint. Kononnya earlier, our stream was to get Tin Ong, Archiekin and Dr. Tim Song. Terror stream. Poor Chee Shang got all three before Dr. Tim went to complain. Tin Ong is bad enough, plus Archiekin? Everyone will cry!
Tin Ong shifted the patient round so the left was to the door. As a rule, you stand on the patient's left and you fail right away. I entered the room, Tin Ong asked me to stick the sticker on the score chart and I took the opportunity to see what I was to do. Hehe. Then I took one whole minute to figure out which was the patient's right. I stood at the foot of the bed and debated which was my left and my right. Hehe. And then the questions were right across the room, which resulted in me running back and forth to read the questions.
So unprofessional. But at least he did not say anything.
Then in Dr. Srikumar's room, I made mistakes like using Good morning all the time (it was like 3 o'clock in the afternoon). We(dr, patient and me) were laughing throughout the whole thing. But it was ok in the end.
thank God for Dr. Tim Song. I'll never doubt Sheena again when she says that the Doctor is the best around. He was so good. I entered the room praying. His station was about GI and he asked me the four lines that marks the border of each region. I did not know at all. It was somewhere in there in my brain, but I could not drag it out. So he kindly passed that and I did everything else before coming back to the question. I answered the vertical lines, but I could not remember the horizontal lines.
Dr: Come on Elena, you know this.
I: I'm sorry Dr, I'll tembak. Upper lateral and Lower lateral lines.
The buzzer went and I passed. Thank the Al-Mighty.
And that is the end of the Exams. And what did we do right after that?
We went to watch movie. Phantom of Opera again, and I'm still quite happy with the show. I'm practically hooked to it. My godson's mother cried two times. Talk about drama. And there was some idiots talking halfway through the show. My godson's mother actually shouted, "Oi, shut up la."
Mana tau, it was the Bangladesh workers sitting at the stairs talking. Wahlaueh. We went to complain and GSC actually offered to refund, but YK and Jody went, "We complain not to get refund."
Bodoh.
Now finally I am free, and what could be better? Maybe going to India with YP and Grace for electives, tho Richard is so persistant that I don't go. Grace has given the Visa from to Richard on Monday. I've seen him 3 times since then, and everytime i ask for it, he comes up with all kind of excuses. Sheesh!!! That's wat u get wen you get an over-protective boyfriend.
Ok, gonna go out for lunch soon and then there is celebration tonight!!! Richard is going to belanja me eat big meal, yay!!! Sheena, you passed, what your boyfriend give you???!!! Hehe...
Ok, now in super hypermode and going to go kacau ppl. See you guys soon.
Lah lala lalah!
I don't need a recipe book
Because I'm the happy cook
Who feeds the people gook!
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