Orthopaedic = Quality of Life

when ppl mention about orthopaedic surgeons..they think bout human mechanic, nasty ppl who do all the grilling, poking , screwing n stuff. when ppl will think of quality of life when they mention bout the orthopaedic surgeon? but just haf some thought about that. When u r dealing wif bones and stuff, most of the disease they are dealing with are chronic conditions such as osteoarthritis n others..and most of the conditions are not life threatening as well unlike other specialties such as cardiologist which deal with life threatening conditons and once they did sth wrong..the patient might die!! so if the conditions/diseases r not life threatening...why do u need to operate on the patient? for money? for fun? it's come to Quality of Life after all. when it comes to knee joint replacement, or hip replacement becos of bad joints and bad bones which are caused by different disease, it's not the surgeon's say whether to operate on them or not..but the patient. whether they wanna take the risk to have the surgery done and get rid of the diseased joints for better life. so...orthopaedic surgeons are still human after all :P

yea...i'm talkin bout bones now. will be talkin bout this for the next 5 weeks cos i'm doin musculoskeletal attachement which means orthopaedic and rheumatology. today is the 1st day of the attachment. din do much..so will talk more bout this next time :)

got my psychiatry result today..finished this run like ages ago n got my result. well...get a PASS for the run! sort of know it long time ago cos it's hard to fail after u pass the OSCE. n seeing the feedback..i can see a real nasty consultant. one of the consultant i attached to said that she din remember seeing me after 1st couple of days which make it sound like i never turn up for anything. but in fact, it's just bcos we haf lots of lectures during those 2 weeks n when i turn up..she wasnt there. soooo nasttttyyy!! luckily i still got a pass...phew~! now just hope tat i pass my neuro run as well!

ok..i'm actually haf to do my maori case today...or actually since 3 weeks ago. but still haven got it started. just 2 more weeks to get it done...grr..will start tmr? haha...just sien to do this. i would rather spend more time reading muscular stuff than doin that assignment la. but still...who ask me to come to otago a? got a morning off tmr..yea! can sleep in

i'm goin to gold coast wif the rest on 8th Nov - 13 Nov..any1 in oz by tat time? hee...

tat's all...bye!