December 2010
26 posts
Happy New Year.
It’s New Year’s Eve. & No, I’m not sitting outside and partying or anything like that. I have been home the whole day and just thinking about how the next year will be, and quite frankly, I am scared.
I turn a year 3 in April next year. Don’t.even.want.to.start.thinking.about.it
Right now, my January is as packed as it is.
500 word essay on the differences of asthma...
Subject: Fw: Medicine is not just a career, but a...
Medicine is not just a career, but a calling !!!!!!!! I have always felt keenly the suffering of animals. Since I was a child, I had wanted to be a vet. My parents persuaded me to abandon that idea by using the example of a vet whose university education was funded by the Public Service Commission. When he returned to Singapore , he was posted to serve his bond at the abattoirs. That...
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Clinical 2B IS OVER.
I’m so glad to be able to say that. I’m finally done with 5 weeks of clinicals! Makes me wonder how it’ll be like when I actually start work, there’ll be nothing to count down to.. So now, we are on a little break (more for completing essays/reports/preparing for exams) and our next attachment will start on… valentine’s day. (i know right) so another 2C, and...
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Caregiver
Have you ever thought about who takes care of the patients at home? I’m in the geriatrics team now, so caregiver is an important question that we never fail to ask during our assessment.
& It has dawned upon me the importance of the caregiver. They are more than just people who shower/cook/dress the patients, these people are a source of comfort and familiarity when they get warded....
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Inservice presentation
For every subsequent clinical attachment, we will be required to come up with a topic to present. It’s termed as inservice presentation. I gotta present it to my Clinical supervisor, and whoever he invites to the presentation! Then I’ll be asked questions by all these experience physiotherapists :(
Inservice requires a lot of literature review, which is quite annoying and tedious because...
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Oldest patient till date - 99 years old, still able to walk with handhold! Still able to talk, English at that. Really cute and polite gentleman, whose hair is styled like the jack jack from the movie ‘Incredibles’
Longest staying patient till date - well, he’s been here since I started my placement. He’s finally going home soon. Gotta be a month odd.
Oldest patient...
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Week 3
surviving 3 weeks has passed faster than I thought it would. nine more days. yes i’m counting down.
i’m more or less used to what is being done everyday. my feet doesn’t tire that easily.
good shoes are imperative. i think as physios or physios-to-be, we should all the more know the importance of wearing good shoes, so i strongly hope that my school can change the ”black...
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Competition
this world is incredibly competitive. people are just getting smarter, and it is taking a lot more to get to where we want these days. i am competitive, i like to excel and i like to be the one who does well. but since i started being in this industry, i am constantly reminded that this is a service industry. our patients come first. that it doesn’t matter who gets the best grades and all,...
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Because as physiotherapists, all we need are a...
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Cherish.
Your ability to drink any amount of fluids you want - water, drinks, soup, gravy. Because a patient with heart failure is only limited to one liter of fluids a day, and that includes soup and all.
Your ability to climb the stairs. Because it actually takes quite a lot of muscle work to climb up, and more to climb down.
The ability to walk. You wouldn’t imagine the number of people who...
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Congestive Cardiac Failure →
My homework today was to research more on congestive cardiac failure and I thought this was a pretty good website and it’s also easy to understand, though it has nothing about physiotherapy management.
But I guess the imporant this here is patient education, to educate the patient what she/he can do and what she/he cannot. Especially if it’s the elderly patients who tend to have a...
White Coat: World AIDS Day →
white-coat:
It seems like every month there’s a day to raise awareness for a disease/condition. They’re all important, but this one sticks out in my mind because of my experiences in helping build and fund AIDS clinics in Africa. There are villages that consist entirely of children because all of the adults…
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2/12/2010
I NEED to learn how to speak Malay. I become a mute everytime I face a patient who converses in Malay.
Never ever give up on your patients, no matter how bad their potential for rehabilitation is.
Patients who seem like they are not there, like they are in their own world, in my opinion, can hear you. So always be encouraging. I have 2 stroke patients who were like.. gone at the initial period....
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1/12/2010
as healthcare professionals.. you gotta be used to the smell of shit and even be okay with it if you accidentally touch it.
as much as you dread work, there will always be some things that will make your day.
i almost cried when this old man told us that he didn’t want to go home, because in the hospital, he has friends to talk to, he can exercise, he can eat and he can sleep when...