things happen when you least expect....

phewww.... what a relief!

am home finally after 4 and 1/2 hours of 'teaching' in hospital. Or shall I not say teaching.

It's a big big SCAM la wei!

....a SPOT OSCE! can u imagine, grrr.

so the plot goes, our consultant told us the OSCE exam is on Tues. and today Monday, his registrar will give us a teaching session to prepare us for tmr's real deal. Yeah, so we happily went in at 3pm, having nothing at all in mind. It's like preparing a nice clean cd for the installation of useful datas later.

Howeverrr.... things went amiss when Phil showed up and went in a calm tone,

'we're going to do OSCE today, and you guys don't have to come in again tomorrow.'

.................................. it was then a long pause.

total blank reactions from us. nothing to say.

and the next thing I remember was, I was brought to patients and have to start taking history and do an examination!

so, 10 minutes each for history taking and clinical examination.

nothing much to tell from there, nothing interesting, merely my corticosteroids and adrenaline shooting sky high and muscarinic pathways continously sending signals down my sweat glands on palms.

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yeah, it was all over.

and he refused to give us feedback on the spot. so, there will be another session on Wednesday to collect our results. and written exam is on Friday. and I'm so screwed with my revision.

after the test, we stayed and watched a chest drain procedure. it's basically 'drilling' a hole on the chest, using a range from small to large plastic tubes to make a big enough hole to insert a tube into the lung space for PUS to drain out. yeah, smelly, very!

so it sums up to a total 4 and a half hours in ward, 3pm -7.30pm.

speechless lah.

so much of being caught to do osce at the MOST UNPREPARED timing.

I even made a deal with my housemate to do a mock osce tonight to prepare for tomorrow. looks like it's no longer needed.

hmm, perhaps I can take a good bath and have a nice sleep early tonight.

can't be bothered.