Sigh

I've gone on and on about how enjoyable clinics was, and how rewarding. How now all our studying's being put to good use at last. Well over these couple of weeks, I've realised the last link in the chain: that the people around me in CGH were truly stellar. Here the patients are not any less in need, nor is there any shortage of lessons to learn. No shortage of tutors willing to teach, either. But the experience is nowhere near as pleasant.

I shouldn't generalise; most of my classmates here in med are good decent people, eager to learn and not afraid to be wrong. But it's become blatantly obvious that there are also those who embody the absolute worst in medical students; the selfishness, greed, inconsideration and sheer lack of common sense that I used to think only exist in Playhouse scripts; now it's clear where they get those stage characters from. From pissing off perfectly nice patients, to screwing up your colleagues and failing to pass on stuff; u name it, i've seen it. It's almost like you're trying to make life difficult for us all, and that really sucks, cos life's hard enough as it is.

These past couple of days have been a hell of running around, clerking frantically and spending night time reading up and preparing stuff. Having lectures and all is good, but there are so many that it's suffocating, and there's no time to do anything else. Each tutor seems to think we've got nothing else to do except his/her stuff. Med's managed to swallow up practically all the time I have left, and it still demands more. Sigh...


Special mention to my half cg (neither of whom reads this haha). You guys are one of the few saving graces here...

God give me patience, cos there's damn little else to live on here.


"One of the greatest labor saving inventions of today is tomorrow."

-Vincent T. Foss