The End

No, I’m not going to stop writing in here… It’s just hopefully, it’ll be the end of my days at university. We’ve finally finished all our exams. It’s finally over now. The last exam was last Friday’s Medicine OSCE. To be honest, I’m still not feeling as happy as I should be. The official results are still not out yet. Luckily, I didn’t need any pull-up viva. But the problem is that still doesn’t mean I’m in the clear. I still don’t know if I’m one of those who performed so bad that I didn’t deserve a pull-up viva. Well, I don’t think I’m that bad. I mean even if I did bad, I still should be a viva. But these are things that you never know. Hopefully I’m going to be OK, but until the official result are out, I’m still going to live in fear…

After the Medicine OSCE preliminary results were released, I went hotpot with some friends outside my medicine circle. It was pretty cool. We went to Ling’s for the hotpot. Ate a lot and had a little bit of beer. Afterwards, we all met up at Shelter for drinks together with people from medicine. It was pretty cool. We had two bottles of vodka plus we had a few shots. I’m seriously going to stop drinking beer before going drinking because it totally fucks me up. Every time I have beer before I go drink, I puke after drinking, and I get really sleepy. So you can tell what happened after 3 hours at Shelter. I got really sleepy and puked when I got downstairs… Sorry I had to end the night like that… But hey I had fun, and I hope the others did too.

I’ve started playing World of Warcraft again. It’s pretty cool. I’ve played for a few days, and it’s getting crazier by the day. Since the game’s been going on for so many months already. There’s actually quite a few people who has already reached level 60 (which is the top level). So these people started going out hunting for the other race. We call these “raids”. Basically it’s a bunch of high level players going deep into enemy territory and killing everything in their path. There’s been pretty crazy raids going on. I’ve seen a raid in one city, I got killed a few times, but then by the time I ran to the next city, I found out that there’s another raid going on there as well… So basically, some pretty hardcore raids going on. Someone took some pictures of a raid one of the alliance strongholds “IronForge”. The pictures speak for themselves. Check them out here.

Just a short recap on Medicine OSCE, for the general station, I had KYL and GL. KYL totally killed me. This is probably the worst station for me. I probably failed this station. I was so freaked out that I wasn’t able to answer most of his question. CVS I had KL and some GI doctor. I’m not sure what his name was. I was able to pick up a TR and mechanical aortic valve. The patient was probably a case of Marfan because KL showed me the patient’s pair of hands, and the fingers looked long to me. Anyway, this station, I think I was OK. ECG was a case of pericardial effusion, and anterior MI. Not much problem there. Respiratory, I had a lady with decrease chest movement bilaterally, and also coarse crepitation over the left lower lobe. I suspect she has bronchiectasis because she has a sputum bottle next to her. Imaging was alright. We got a pneumothorax and also a SAH. Abdomen, I got a patient with a transplanted kidney, who’s on CAPD? He also has deafness, and it runs in the family. I was asked to give a diagnosis, but I wasn’t able to give one. Afterwards, I think it might be Alport’s Syndrome? Not sure. For CNS, I got a young man with cerebellar signs. I don’t think he is the Wilson’s case, but anyway. He also had some slurring of speech. They asked me what word I would use to describe the slurring. I wouldn’t think of one. They say the word would pretty much give the diagnosis? But anyway, wasn’t able to give the answer. Ethics was on RCT again. But then this time they asked me about confidentiality and they asked some pretty difficult questions like when will the patient’s data be destroyed etc… Totally unfair… Anyway, that’s what happened in the Medicine OSCE. I think I only did poorly in one station. Hopefully the other stations are OK.

Anyway, I’m going to have to wait for 10 more days before the results are released… It’s going to be a long wait…