Cauldron of Thoughts...

Running about in the reeky wards is finally doing some good! It was all so thrilling when I, as a medico, for the first time percussed an oversized chronically diseased liver, palpated a visible apex beat, auscultated a stenotic valve and observed those toes fanning out just on tracing a curvy stroke. Boy! Did I just I ellicit a Babinski! ( :D :D :D :D And my heart was pounding with joy! ). All this in a week! Saw my first Bell's, the rare cerebellopontine angle tumor and a few days back, the facies of a six - year 'mucopolysaccharidotic' kid.Everything still vivid in my head! Just wish I get to see an asterixis now! Experience here with me the joy of discovering an AS murmur over heart of an eighty-year old! :P Beating like it would just come out! Made my day! And now, having written this, I wonder, if I really am that painfully enthusiastic medical student ! Well, even if I am, I like it this way! ;)

Day 7 : The finale! A tiring day!Have been  sneezing throughout! Still focusing on five good things that happened : 1. I realized that I hadn't lost it even after being lectured for over an hour by PSM professors - The so called "General Do's and Dont's of PSM posting''. Like its some war. I was, in fact, amused. Let me elaborate : PSM (Preventive and Social Medicine) faculty in my college is full of those sadists who want to control each and every aspect of your life.You argue. They ensure you flunk! I'm posted in this department for a month starting today. They take us in groups in mornings on these visits to places that provide health care services to the community at large : the social aspect of medicine. Well, that's interesting indeed. But this department is so hyper about things, which makes it all so dull. The group that goes usually misses out on all other lectures scheduled after 12 noon and is still held responsible for missing the...