and so, the curtain to CSFC has drawn to a close. the tests + OSCE over the past week has been a nightmare. just when i've thought i'm capable of taking gd history and physical signs n symptoms from patients, i was proven totally wrong. yuckz.

for medicine tests, i forgot to check for spider naevi n virchow's nodule in a liver mets case and got my patho for liver probs all wrong when probed by the tutor. worse, i diagnosed another patient as having asthma when he had partial lung collapse, all because i din hear my stetho properly (my stetho is really for show only sia!!) and din test for vocal resonance. sigh, for surg test, i did check for vichow's gland correctly in another abdo exam but forgot to ascultate for sounds, din notice hyperpigmentation on left thorax from radiotherapy and din see a super obvious tube that ran from his left axilla because i was inspecting from the right. grr... and as for OSCE, i totally flung it because i've no idea what it was asking. sigh x 3

still, i did enjoy these 6 weeks in SGH because the tutors were very competent and cases that u needed to see were everywhere. also, i had khai wei as my buddy who guided me much along the way as well. i would miss the weekly-almost-turned-daily sessions in the SGH OTs, my 1st stitch on during a hernia operation, the friday 7am M&M sessions when surgeons bicker, my coolio surgeon hiang khoon, the daily coffee session plus the occasional goreng pisangs in the HO canteen, my med tutors dr felicia and william, ward 63 where i terrorized the patients, nurses and HOs, all the patients in SGH, my cg 10, and of course the liero game in medical student centre. oh man, y must i live that place?

next up is the hols before gg to NUH for med den CGH for surg. this is a nightmare come true and i can't elaborate much on why it is so here. help... so before that happens, i'll try to enjoy this last holidays. let the holidays begin... ...