Hehehehe!

Ahhhhh How adorable is this??? *Melts* :)

Oh my god please stop it already :( The dogs next door have been barking incessantly non-stop for the past 1 hour while I've been trying to study. It's like an alarm clock that has gone off and the snooze button is next door. Woof woof woof GRRRRR.

You know the feeling of walking while carrying a bowl full of soup? The feeling of trying to walk as still as possible to avoid disturbing the fluid too much? That's the exact same feeling I get just before an exam. My brain is filled to the brim with steaming hot knowledge, freshly memorised. And all I want is that there is a table to set it down on before the soup gets cold or is spilt.

I've got an ant problem in my house recently probably due to the change in season. The ants have been shifting location all over my house randomly and I've been tracking them down. They've chosen the stupidest place today - a path leading from my cupboard into my....... SINK! Hahahaha!-Margs the mighty ant tyrant

"Don't think zebra before you think horse."

Analogy by clin skills tutor when talking about not thinking about cancer before thinking of UTIs when haematuria is present. Lol!

BPE is the physical enlargement of the prostate that occurs as the result of the histologic changes of BPH. BPO is BOO in the setting of BPE.

Gee... That's helpful. Thanks.

Typing out my clinical encounter with a 81 year old patient (Mr WW) late at night and having a few thoughts...

I was just typing out the part about this patient's family history and this question struck me: When is it fine for someone to die?

Mr WW's dad passed away when he was 95 and his mum at 97. His dad had diabetes and his mum suffered from a heart problem and arthritis. I was deciding on how to phrase my sentence- did they die with those conditions or from those conditions? And then I decided: it did not matter. They lived till such a ripe old age, they should have died anyway. It did not matter what conditions they had when they were living or what they actually did die off. I should move on with my life.

2 seconds later and after finishing that section of my report, I felt the strangest feeling ever. I could not move on to the other sections. I felt so guilty for being so nonchalant about their deaths! It was as though I had just single handed-ly, in the most god-like fashion, waved my hands and passed the death sentence on these 2 individuals, simply because they had lived for too long. I might as well have killed them when I callously dismissed furthering the thought of 'what killed them?'. It might as well have been society, and our notion of life-expectancy that killed them.

And so I guess, with this acute bolt of my conscience which prompted this entry, my answer to my initial question is: Never. It is never fine for someone to die. And this probably ties in with how I had an inexplicable urge to wish Mr WW well when I left him. I bid him goodbye by wishing that he'll live to a 100 years old.

(And being able to tie in my thoughts and actions into a single unifying theory of what I believe in makes me happy. I think of myself as a sane and normal person whose brain and actions are well-integrated, with consistent thoughts.)

Incredibly tickled by this slide during a lecture (among other things. how hilarious is Darwin- guy w ear infection?!!) and keen to find out more, I trawled through 3 web pages and a 20 page Word document (I can't believe myself either) of compiled acronyms to present to you these funnies. (The things I do when I procrastinate. Sigh.)

Medical Acronyms

ART - Assuming Room Temperature (recently deceased).
Acute Lead Poisoning - Gunshot wound
Acute Pneumoencephalopathy - airhead
Adminisphere - where hospital managers work, reckoned to be "another planet"
AGA - Acute Gravity Attack (fell over)
Aggressive Euthanasia - A procedure that obnoxious patients would benefit from.
AHF - Acute Hissy Fit
Banana - patient with jaundice
BWCO - Baby Won't Come Out (needs Caesarian)
CBT - Chronic Burger/Biscuit Toxicity (obesity)
CCFCCP - Coo-coo for Co-Co Puffs (dementia or similar)
DIFFC - Dropped In For Friendly Chat (i.e. no medical problem)
GOK - God Only Knows
Gorillacillin - very powerful antibiotic
GOK - God Only Knows.
GFPO - Good For Parts Only.
GLM - Good Looking Mum.
Happy Little Campers - children in oxygen tents
HMF - Hysterical Mother Figure
Parentectomy - removing parents as an effective cure for a child's problems
Rheumaholiday - rheumatology (considered by hard-pressed juniors to be a less busy dept)
T&T Sign - Tattoo-to-Teeth Sign: survival indicator; those who are tattooed and toothless will survive major injuries
TOBP - Tired of Being Pregnant (especially patient demanding caesarian)
VAC - Vultures are Circling (dying)
YAVIS - Young, attractive, verbal, intelligent, successful.
YOYO - You're on your own (message passed from one doctor to another regarding problem/mystifying cases)

Vet Acronyms

BDLDLDL-big dog, little dog, little dog lost (usually Chihuahuas that try to fight a German Shepherd)
CSTO - Cat Smarter Than Owner
DIC - dead in cage or death is coming (technically, it means Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation, which is just as lethal)
DSTO - Dog Smarter Than Owner
PU - paws up (dead)
ROBO – run over by owner

You know what? Sometimes you just have to suck it up.