haha it is only the start of week2 of family med posting, and i've finished my gp posting! hooray. so i get tues and thurs off. 

but guess what. now i'm sick. with a nasty bout of flu, phlegm and sore throat and everything, so i have to spend the first tuesday off at home.. =(

anyway the reason why i get this week off is cause my gp had to go to manila, philippines (Haha rob couldn't spell it correctly) for a conference FULLY sponsored by glaxosmithkline!! shiok eh!! when the drug rep came to brief him on the trip last week, dr tong (that's my gp) told us that he had no choice but to go for this trip since it was free and he needed a holiday. then asked us what there was to do in manila since he had no idea.

i wouldn't mind. i like free holidays. (i was mouthing behind the drug rep - i want to go too!)

so yesterday was the last evening session with him, and i think the powers of bringing peace and harmony and tranquility are really really strong in hsienmin and i. i asked him how last week's schedule was, with two of us sitting in at the clinic. he said, "well, on the days when u guys are here, it was slow, so slow it was embarassing. on the days when u guys weren't here, i was so busy i didn't even have time to eat my dinner! but its ok, i like slow days once in a while... but not so often. haha" 

then reading other fellow med students' blogs on how they're doing at their emergency medicine posting (which i did last dec). they have busy nights, busy ambulance runs, busy busy busy! a total contrast from the peaceful times i had there, when even the MOs in the ED said, 'eh ? how come tonight is like running a GP clinic?'. and we even managed to neutralize the always full TTSH A&E dept to be completely empty, no patients whatsoever, no one, nothing, zilch, no ambulance, nothing.. for one full hour. until one patient came in complaining of 'leg pain'. i rest my case.

and then, when our night shift ended at 7am and we were stumbling out of the ED (just woke up, you see, there was nothing else to do) and walking to the carparks, what do we see but 4 ambulances driving into the standby area. and our MO telling us the next day "oh why why why did you guys leave just before my shift ended at 8am?? we were so busy!!!"

so it's definitely not hard to believe that i went through the whole emergency medicine posting and i didn't see any dead, or near dead patients. it's good for them really, but bad for my learning, cause i really don't know what a dead person looks like. (no, year 1 cadavers from anatomy class do not count.) or what to do in emergency cases, since i think i saw a grand total of 2 throughout my whole emed posting. definitely not as power packed as lynn's busy nights at the same hospital where she's doing her emed now. haha. and  and it's not that i'm slack cause i did go for all the shifts i was assigned to..

are we powerful or what. ohmygosh. hsienmin and i are the powerful bearers of peace and harmony and tranquility.

i think in the future, i'd make a very good house officer since i probably won't see any patients. and we'd be very popular with the whole on-call team that night.