EpiFunny’s of Mine

last week was our clinical pharmacology lecture,unlike what i anticipated..it was good..actually it was the best cycle i had this year.i thought it was like pharmacology or biochemistry…where we had to memorized everything..read,read till we were nauseous,then read again(we were supposed to,i didn’t read much.u can see the proof in my zachut book)clinical pharmacology was great..though i didn’t understand much..but we learnt a lot from maksim urelevich frolov…a guy who has 5 degrees,speaks russian,english,japanese,and lots of fun to hang around with.he cracked more jokes in a day than any other doctors i know since my first year here(more than jamil habib..seriously,and i thought he was the best).

the class started from 8.30 till 1,but was far better than any 1 hour of let say,ENT.sadly,most probably we’ll not get him to teach again next year cause,in fact,untill we came,he only taught doctors(specialists).and it’s just plain luck that there was no other lecturer free in our cycle(maybe the usual one went to a conference)..anyway..here’s some things that i learnt from him:

-there’s three types of facts:the truth,the false and the statistic.
-the skill of a doctor is not memorising the facts but to find the right info as quick as possible(we trained using VIDAL 2005)
-rats are very clever animals..
-bicarbonated drinks may be as bad as cigarettes:they have everything that can make our body go wrong..indians are very smart campaigning against it..i wonder when malaysian government will do the same(or maybe they still need the taxes from coca cola to fund the space programme)
-cigarettes are still one of the worst thing a sane human being can smoke,eat or any other action of putting something inside the body.and if u light a cigarette,put it out and then light it again,it’ worse.
-there’s no elixir of healing..a cure for this guy may not work for the next guy.and there’s always the drug tolerance to think of.
-like most things,the quality of drugs are not connected to their advertisement.sometimes,a drug company just changed the name and packaging of the same,old drug,just like mitsubishi did with Evo 9(same feature with Evo 8,they just changed the no to 9 so that Evo enthusiasts can buy the calendars)
-but,more expensive generic drugs are better than cheap generics,so paradox to what i wrote above,we probably should buy the prettier packages..

i’ll write more about clinical pharmacology in my next blog.but now…i’m in my ortho cycle.where all the machoest,handsomest,coolest(i know i’m grammatically wrong here) male surgeons work together under one roof…with drills,hammers,wires,screws,plates and everything metal.

my first time in the OT,i can’t help remembering scenes from Hostel and Saw..all the tools were there,except,there’s more people and there’s a nice lady with a portable x-ray machine.all the patients were concious and talking,even joking with the surgeons.horrifying at first,but after a while we got use to it(in the end only 3 of 7 of us left in the OT),never thought that a knee surgery is far more gory than an appendectomy.and the plus thing hanging around the wards is that the head of department looks like johnathan kent of smallville.and another guy really resembles warden pope of prisonbreak.
hopefull we’ll learn more..insyaAllah

here’s some ayats from Quran talking bout healing value of honey:
And thy Lord taught the Bee to build its cells in hills, on trees, and in (men’s) habitations; Then to eat of all the produce (of the earth), and find with skill the spacious paths of its Lord: there issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colours, wherein is healing for men: verily in this is a Sign for those who give thought. (16:68-69)

and some ayats that i thought of when the ortho lecturer taught of multiple fractures and their treatment.:
Does man think that We cannot assemble his bones?Nay, We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers. But man wishes to do wrong (even) in the time in front of him. (75:3-5)

that’s all for now…wassalam

the rector was giving a lecture bout drug allergies..i think

a “green tree” in the snow

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