24
He was 24. He looked just like one of us. He took too much heroin that time.
He was 24. He looked just like one of us. He took too much heroin that time.
This is a list of the people I will be spending exorbitant amounts of time with this year, in the Princess Alexandra Hospital:
| Shaun Dooley |
| David Robert Graff |
| Andree Laherty |
| Ian Law |
| Sebastian Le Feuvre |
| Meghann Leahy |
| Michael Lee |
| Nele Lenders |
| Jacinda White |
| Emma Whittle |
I only know a few of them, and they are good, so I hope the rest are just as good. Jacinda and I were in the same group last year! I understand they try put pairs of people from old groups in the new ones, so there’s a little bit of carry over from before, and a lot of new. I will sit in a room with these peeps for about 5 hours each week working on problems, sort of set up like this Small Group. Also, half of them will be in my Clinical Coaching group which also meets for maybe two or three hours a week to learn practical skills. Then after that, if we haven’t seen enough of each other, there’s “Practicals” which to me really means labs, including Anatomy, Pathology and various Physiology Pracs. Also, there are one-off things to do like Clinical Skills… intubating, injections or life support. Needless to say, you get to know your PBL group fairly well.
Hopefully it’s a good one!
Here it is! 2009… Hopefully people are having a good new year, whish has already started in the City of Brisbane, but not here yet.
Each year the date always sounds so futuristic, and the old one sounds so commonplace. It’s that weird feeling that the furniture finance companies take advantage of to make a date that is actually 13 months away, sound like forever away. January, 2010. Sounds far, but it’s really only 13 months. November 2011 sounds a lot further still… it’s 35 months, but will be a good 35 months, that I’m looking forward to.
It’s not long now till I’m back in Vancouver, then on to Brisbane once again. But until then, it’s good Alberta fun and family!
I am done my elective here in Vancouver, and have been for over a week already. The time has flown by leaving me feeling like I am getting nothing done. I am doing things really, and it’s good to get around a bit here and see everyone.
I think I’m trying to squeeze a month’s worth of social expectations into a week and a half, since there was practically no time for socialness during the elective.
I’m leaving Vancity on Wednesday, and am Alberta bound to see the rest of my family in the town where I grew up, which I’m looking forward to.
I hopefully will be able to grab some time to describe what my elective was like, since I haven’t had the time to write all month. For now I’m just running from one thing to the next!
I saw a lot on Friday. It was a fairly busy day and included ward rounds, which I found really fun. I know it wasn’t actually that exciting, but it just was for me.
I’m not certain what I should or shouldn’t write on here, so I won’t write anything for now. I keep a list of procedures I have observed though.
Things are getting better here, I’m now familiar with my bus routes so I can get where I want. I think I have my elective stuff sorted out, I have really enjoyed seeing my friends and family, and I am just about psychologically ready to let go of the Bell Mobility fiasco. The looming unknown of elective and VGH life is giving way to nice people and neat experiences slowly. I am still kinda caught in administrative hell, but I think I’m getting out soon… I’m like a hopeful day-parole applicant (cause I know it’s not actually over… there will be more in my life).
The rain is just what I remember. I’m just going to try ignore it, but it does really change the way I feel… I know most people think that’s weird.
All done. Happy, nervous, surprised.
Goin home.
The local students have a phrase that they use to fondly refer to their pre exam signs of stress… It’s purple panic time. There are Jacaranda‘s in bloom everywhere here. That’s how a UQer knows it’s time to panic. The trees make quite bright purple blooms, solidly without any green leaves. This picture was taken yesterday, but they are already a little past their prime and have started to grow green leaves a little bit.
Very appropriate…. my exam is in less than 50 hours. Too late if you’re just panicking now, but hopefully not to late for us.
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Today was the last session for me with PBLIV. We had a half session to finish out the important points of our case this morning and then headed over to a fish and chips shop close by called A Salt and Battery. Our case this week was Domestic Violence.
The year has been really good and I’m going to miss having these guys in the group. I know whenever you get randomly assigned people you have to work closely with, there’s so much potential for adversity, but I think our group really came together. It’s not that we’re all the same, cause we are definitely different, but things seemed to work. I’ll miss them!
I have been trying out the Mike- and Brian-inspired couch study. It has not been progressing at the rate that is necessary, so it’s back to the desk, and even after just a day, I already feel more productive. It’s only about 5 weeks till the exam, which means there’s no time to mess around. I am pretty apprehensive about the upcoming assessment, which includes an exam on just this half of the year, and then another cumulative exam.
The part that concerns me and has been in the back of my mind since forever it feels like is the ethics essay. There is a section of our program called “Ethics and Professional Practice”. It’s really medical law. Which means Acts, Cases and a whole lot about some chick named Regina.
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