Internship for Dummies
To become a doctor, you spend four and a half years of your tiny life in the medical school. When you start, you have that spark, the will to excel, you (and your parents) are on cloud 9. I have seen a junior ask a senior, with all the seriousness on his face, “Sir, Top karne ke liye kitna padhna padta hai?” And then the dream shatters. You have incoming missiles by the name of Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology. And as you succeed to dodge one lot, an even deadlier one is headed your way. And when you somehow manage to survive this brutal massacre, you enter into this new world where you are no longer supposed to remember complex names but learn the process to make the patient healthy. And this is different from anything that you have done before or seen...
Once and for all…. its over!!!
…an X-ray on Bladder stone, a specimen of bladder stone, a right angled clamp, autoclaving, hernioplasty, fibula, the austin moore hip prosthesis and I was done!!! That was the final 20 mins of my last exam (fingers crossed). And what a relief it is. I came out of the surgery seminar room at about 5 and didnt realise what just happened. This is what I have been waiting for not just for the last few months, but for the last 4 years, maybe longer. After I sat for the Peads theory exam on 3rd Dec (which didnt go so well), there was a huge gap before my practicals started. Most of us enjoyed the first 15 days as if the exams were over. But as 29th Dec came closer, I started feeling the heat rise. First came Paediatrics, I was allotted the same case as 5 other....
Almost there…
My Exams started on 18th of this month. 9 days, 7 papers, 4 subjects… and I would be done with the theory of my final year exams!! That should have been today. But Mumbai went boom again!! Just before I finished reading the final few topics for my last exam, news started to pour in that the exams might get postponed. At 7, the news got confirmed. The exams have been postponed until further notice. This would have been the last one!! I would have been free for another month, when I practicals start. But all that I can do is wait for the exam and study all over again Update: Its on 3rd...
32 Days…
Ever played a computer game? You have to get through a set of obstacles. Miss one step and you fall into the deep valley and die. Then you start again, until you have got it right. Then you move on to the next level. Its fun. Right? I feel just like that. Minus the fun part. After tackling the pre university exams, and before I could even stand up straight, the next level is ahead of me. The University. Its the hardest of the levels. No cheats, no god mode and the scaryest of the monsters who are most difficult to tackle. Let the games begin. Share
42 days on the board..
And on the positive side, 100 days to freedom. 15 Jan 09, I will be a free man. No more study or you will fail. No more stop wasting your time on the computer. No more you sleep too much. I get to do what ever I want, when I want and for as long as I want. My exams get over on that day. But as I said, thats like a light year away. Back to reality, today was my pre-university medicine practical. And i was the extreme opposite of wonderful. I had a CNS case (my bad luck starts). I had taken hemiplagia on a few other occasions. No big deal. I was confident. After about about 1 hr, very satisfied with what I had done with history and examination, the examiner came. I started presenting. And then i saw my beautiful poetic creation being riped to shreds. Words after...
The Final Frontier
I have a blackboard in my hostel room. Many would think that I use it for noting down important stuff or practicing diagrams or teach someone (why would you ever think that? Honostly). But thats not it. It shows in huge letters the no 50. Thats the no of days left for 18 nov! Now whats so great abt that date? Lets start with, its a tuesday, just another working day for most of you. The new NFS game gets released on that day. Yeah, thats exciting but not enough to get me to countdown to it (I didnt countdown to the iPhone release and i was superexcited abt that). Then what is it? Well, thats the day the biggest exams of my life starts. I am going to sit for the final year MBBS exams. Once its over (and if i pass), i am going to be a doctor… Yeah! But that...