Week 4 of med school

Today's lecture was about parasites. I think.

I had to get up waay earlier because I had a CSU session with the nurses.
And also, HY was spending the night so I knew not feeding her breakfast in the morning would be a big no no.

Haha today in CSU, we learnt how to do effective handwashing, how to properly put on and remove gloves and gowns, and how to inject syringes etc. The first half of it was pretty okay, a little dull because we were basically just watching the nurse teach us how to wash our hands the right way. There's like 6 steps lol.

Then we watched her wore gloves and the gown. I know from a third party, it seemed pretty pointless but I'm very sure if anyone was asked to demonstrate all the steps before the CSU session, no one would pass. But the process was made lighter and slightly more jovial with the nurses cracking jokes every now and then.
I liked the injecting part.

Since IMU doesn't have any cadavers, we had to practice injecting air into dummies. On a table was a part of person's buns, and we took turns finding the location at which we were to inject the medication. Thank God, I didn't go first because the girl next to me who did, got pretty roughed up by one of the nurses.
(I have issues with dealing with authority. Exactly like Dr. Arizona from GA :-))

For some reason, I felt super drained after the session. But we had two lectures back to back right after that, so I hurried over with KV. I noticed something odd about the gloves. When you took them off, they left strange white smooth powdery substance on your skin. It smelt pretty weird too. Anyway, I was completely out for the good first half of the lectures. I was just so so so mentally drained. Probably because I've been sleeping pretty late due to my temporary insomnia (self diagnosed, of course.)

Thankfully, I bounced back though but the damage was done. Towards the end of the second lecture, I was totally lost because the lecturer was going so fast over the parasite terms. But I learnt many lectures ago to record all the lectures so I could go back and playback them. So at least, I can write down whatever I missed.

Ah, it's been roughly 2 weeks since I've not had any astro. Oh God.

I've sent a report two times now, going to be three -.- The lady on the phone told me to try again in 3 hours. It's been roughly 2 hours. -.- This is so pathetic.
I should probably start my PBL now. Argh. Anyone know what filariasis is?

CPR 101

Today during my CPR lecture:
Doctor: What do you do if the person who fainted has really big breasts? Like if she was a Westerner.

 [no doubt acknowledging the abundant blessing that God probably forgot to add to Asian women ;P]

 Me: You press harder!

 Doctor: No not really. Anyone else?

Me: Oohh, you push it aside! Like... you clear the way. So you just.. yeah push them aside!

Doctor: Correct! Here you go!

 

This is what I got. So awesome!
I wanted it since I saw the EMT people demonstrate how to use it. So cool. Hee hee.

Actually the EMT lady sitting next to me, told me if I answered his questions correctly, I could get it that's why I answered.
Otherwise, I usually act like part of the wallpaper in lectures. Eric got the other one. (There were two).

His Question:

Doctor: What do you do about the bra of the lady? You can't put the sticky pads of the AED on the bra. So what do you do?

Eric: *high pitch yell* TAKE IT OFF!!!
[no doubt he understood the game now and probably noticed that there was only one mouth mask left on the table ;P]

hahaha apparently, it was correct.



P.S. it's a mask for when you breathe into the mouth of the person who fainted, you won't contract anything like HIV especially if the person is bleeding or has ulcers or whatever.

Hence, it's more hygienic and safer. I gonna carry it wherever I go. :D