Neocortical Impulses!

ya i know its been a long time since i posted,been a bit busy and feeling really lazy! i was busy when i was posted in isolation hospital-what with 18 hours continuous duty when i had night duties.....but it was a very informative experience. never in my life had i seen a rabies patient,managed to see one here,poor people they are,nothing much can be done to save them! also,3 tetanus cases were there in the wards when was finishing my posting there,1 patient had expired just the previous day....had never seen these patients too. so people reading this post,be warned-prevention is better than cure. get anti rabies vaccination when bitten by a dog and tetanus toxoid injection when you have a penetrating wound. also wash the sites with liberal amounts of soap and water. right now,i have been posted in siddiah road referral hospital-urban and family welfare centre. not much work here actually, its only on mondays and fridays-when there is ante-natal care clinic that we will be really busy....

that`s the postings i have right now. we have had 1 and a 1/2 weeks of it and it has been okay, compared to medicine. like most people say, in medicine, diagnosing itself poses a big challenge whereas in surgery, it`s not so much of a headache. maybe i am saying this because i have liked general medicine all along my course.i liked physiology in 1st year, medicine is like an extension. i had not liked anatomy then, so surgery doesn`t appeal so much to me. also i don`t think i can stand the pain suffered by patients in surgical practice. some of the times, when the PGs are dressing wounds, ulcers in the wards, i can`t bear to look at the faces of those wincing patients or hear their painful cries! anyway, we have seen a few cases till now, them being a diabetic ulcer(i had to help dress it, thankfully, it was painless to him), a carcinoma breast, a hernia, a hydrocoele, a thyroid gland swelling. all these patients were really co-operative and we students have to be really thankful to t...

That`s the postings i have right now, i am supposed to have anyway, but as the PGs have their exams going on, i don`t think it will start until friday atleast(more likely monday as thursday and saturday are holidays). that reminds me, saturday is the d-day,elections, its the first time i will be voting! The boy in the photo(photo is not mine, though i suffer from the same condition) has a skin disease called acne vulgaris . i have been suffering from this condition since 6-7 years, with exacerbations and (not exactly) remissions. i have been put on isotretinoin treatment since almost 2 months now and the pimples have cleared up(at long last!!!!!). its a 3 month course and lets see how long this remission lasts! The drug itself is a retinoid(a vit a analogue), has a page full of side effects! is prescribed only as a last resort in cases untreatable by other drugs and means(like mine).

well, our orthopaedics postings have got over after a 4 week posting. the 2 internals have been done and dusted.... the internals in instruments and x-rays were held on friday, were okay. watched the bangalore royal challengers v/s deccan chargers match yesterday, at last the royal challengers won a match at home, barely though! it was a closely contested match and took some fine last 2 balls from the bangalore boy(or man!) Anil Kumble for the bangaloreans to scrape through for a 3 run win, the narrowest of margins yet in the tournament! feeling a little unwell from yesterday morning, have right maxillary sinusitis from what i make of my symptoms and signs! anyway, today i am relaxing, have no plans of studying anything.... am posting this not knowing what to do now, maybe i will watch a movie!

well, its the end of our first postings in final year. OBG was quite good, though the internals on Friday did not go too well. on the whole it was a good 6 weeks postings, i think we learnt a lot more than we had till now. we have 2 continuous holidays now, a little free, as one posting has just got over and the next one begins from tuesday. i think i`ll go watch a movie now.