Neocortical Impulses!

last week, we were told we would have no internals at the end of postings in obg and instead we would be evaluated topic wise, we would be given a topic to prepare for, the previous day, and questions would be asked on the same and marks given according to the overall performance in several topics. this happened on last saturday and this monday. the rest of the days, our profs, asst. profs, lecturers were all busy and today this happened: "oh, you have internals today right?", asked the person who had told us we would not be having internals, at 10:30 in the morning. i was thinking- NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, we dont. but nothing came out of my mouth, not from the others` either.... we did present 2 cases. my internals were okay, except for 2 silly mistakes, one because of a slip of tongue..... i have been in an irritable mood ever since. nothing much to write about, except more internals- we have surgey theory on friday. and paediatrics postings begin from monday, hello kids!

about time our medicine postings started, they did from this monday. already we have seen quite a few interesting cases, 2 pleural effusion cases, copd with cor pulmonale, anemia for evaluation. but the most interesting case is about a guy who has diffuse, dull aching, bilateral chest pain since 3 years and breathlessness and bilateral pedal edema since 1 month. he also has cough when he gets breathless, a/w scanty sputum! evening rise of temp. also since a month. to top it all, he says he has diarrhoea since 3 years-hard to believe when he says he dint take any real treatment for it. its a case referred to our hospital(victora) from jayadeva. obg internals was okay. couldnt blog because net connection was down for almost(or more than) a week, first time this has happened with bsnl broadband. at last, bangalore royal challengers won a rare game yesterday, the last 4 overs were scintillating to watch! 3 wins off 12 games, they have moved off the bottom of the table at long last! p.s: th...

so soon? thats what i feel whenever some test/exam comes up! but these internals do really come very frequently in the final year, what with internals in all the postings you attend and theory as well. well, obg internals fast approaching, am trying to fast reading! still have quite a bit to read. skin postings are still going on(no internals in this one posting,thankfully), get over this saturday.we saw a case of pemphigus yesterday and a case of hansen`s today. lucky the patient was so co-operative today, imagine 30 odd "doctors" examining your hypoaesthetic patch, palpating all the nerves that can be palpated superficially(half of them tender for him), each one asking the same questions, .... found an interesting and funny image!

An introductory talk was given by the HOD of OBG dept. in the morning. then we continued taking the case we had already started taking( a prof. from our unit had asked us to take one). went in search of him to present the case, but we couldnt find him... headed home afterwards as there were no theory classes today. am writing this now... quite a boring day really...

Well, it`s the end of the so called holidays, final year begins from tomorrow. OBG postings. finished moscow vector, awesome book. saw India lose to Australia again, but this time they put up quite a good fight. it was a very good cricket match on the whole.

had gone to a friends house today, stayed there till evening. nothing else done today... found out that my first postings in final year will be OBG(as always, wonder why obg is always first for my batch), yesterday night.