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(after a long tiring shift at the emergency department)…

Me: Eh Tat.. if Hugh Grant, Bruce Willis and Tom Cruise come into the emergency dept at the same time who will you treat first?

Tat: Mmm… I’ll treat Tom Cruise first lah…

Me: Why??

Tat: Coz I like him most compared to the other two..

Me: Should treat Hugh Grant first lah..

Tat: Huh? Why?

Me: Coz if you don’t treat him soon you might be seeing a funeral very soon after the 4 weddings! Who would you treat last?

Tat: ??

Me: Treat Bruce Willis last, don’t have to worry much coz he’s Die Hard. Although Tom Cruise might be Mission Impossible you can just take your time.

Tat: Like that Hugh Grant also quite difficult, coz Notting will Hill him woh…

Me: Haha.. smart huh.. we’re indeed from the same family.

*hugs* (not)

Me: (getting more inspired).. then hor if Bruce Lee comes along you probably won’t need to see him anytime soon lah…

Tat: why? coz he’s dead already?

Me: nola he’s probably just got minor stuff, like Bruise Lee mah..

Tat: hohoho…*laughs hysterically*…

From The Age(d) newspaper yesterday…

This is one ringtone you’ve gotta hear

Enterprising teenagers have hijacked a high-pitched electronic blip which adults cannot hear and turned it into a stealth ringtone.

It is suitable for use in situations where grown ups aren’t meant know there’s an incoming call or text message.

The ringtone - which can be downloaded from the internet - is proving especially popular amongst school students in the US and UK who use it in classrooms.

With it, students can receive text message alerts on their mobile phones without the teacher knowing.

As people age, many develop what’s known as presbycusis or aging ear - a loss of the ability to hear higher-frequency sounds.

The ringtone is a spin-off of technology that was originally meant to repel teenagers - not help them.

Last year, a Welsh security company devloped the 17 kilohertz buzz to help shopkeepers disperse youngsters loitering in front of their stores.

Mr Howard Stapleton, the inventor of the "Mosquito", claims the high-frequency pulsing sound can be heard by most people younger than 20 and almost no one older than 30.

Realising the commercial possibilities in the unintended use of the blip, Mr Stapleton’s company has quickly produced it’s own official version of the ringtone which they are calling the "the authentic Mosquito ring."

If you’re under 20 (or over 20 with very good hearing), you can listen to the blip here.

(Hint: in your Windows Media Player, set the option bar to visualisations > bars and waves > bars and at least if you can’t hear the sound, you’ll be able to see it.)

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p/s: I CAN HEAR IT I CAN HEAR IT!!!!!!!!! Woohoooooo…(well I guess it’s not surprising, those under 20 are meant to be able to hear it)..

Tomorrow’s the Medical careers Expo - where the different hospitals have an exhibition-type thing with their representatives there to take questions. Gotta be deciding (ALREADY??!!!) which specialty I’d wanna train in (e.g. if I train in Medicine I’ll be a Physician, if I train in Surgery I’ll be a Surgeon).

The mentor sent a timely link - The Medical Specialty Aptitude Test, which matches your personality to the type of specialty that would suit you…

Mine:

http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/

Rank	Specialty	Score
1	med oncology	44
2	dermatology	43
3	emergency med	41
4	preventive med	41
5	occupational med	41
6	pediatrics	41
7	radiation oncology	41
8	family practice	40
9	anesthesiology	40
10	general internal med	39
11	rheumatology	39
12	physical med & rehabilitation	39
13	ophthalmology	39
14	urology	39
15	radiology	39
16	psychiatry	38
17	nephrology	38
18	gastroenterology	38
19	endocrinology	37
20	hematology	37
21	colon & rectal surgery	37
22	aerospace med	37
23	obstetrics/gynecology	37
24	neurology	37
25	otolaryngology	37
26	orthopaedic surgery	36
27	pathology	36
28	neurosurgery	36
29	plastic surgery	36
30	allergy & immunology	36
31	pulmonology	35
32	thoracic surgery	35
33	nuclear med	34
34	infectious disease	34
35	cardiology	32
36	general surgery	32

Must say it’s quite accurate - Med Onc is a specialty where you care for cancer patients, I’ve always liked talking to cancer patients, learning from them, reflecting with them what’s past and what’s to come. It’s one of those diseases where you’re suddenly thrown into having to ponder (with a mind often still healthy and not demented) upon the mortality and fragility of life.

Dermatology should not belong anywhere near the top of my list! I won’t want to look at skins and describe lumps and bumps for the next 30 years of my life thankyouverymuch. Was just telling a friend I’d rather be a teacher (haha that’s what I’d wanna be if I weren’t a dr by the way)…

Emergency medicine I love! Love the action in the department and the fact that you never know what sort of cases to expect as patients walk in. Just the odd shifts that make the lifestyle quite difficult, would definitely consider it more seriously if I didn’t plan to have a family!

Preventive med and Occupational med have never crossed my mind…

PAEDIATRICS!! i love kids i love kids - treat them not eat them (krys!).. Besides the fact that I think I can identify with them (and behave like them at times), there’s just something about being able to help a sick kid feel better. A kid who is unwell, somehow is just able to draw our care and love, compassion… even parents separated would for those moments put their hatred/differences/grievances aside and work together to help the kid get better. As if suddenly there’s an awakening of the GOOD inside each person - no matter how little, is magnified, to care. Maybe it’s their innocence, that kids should not deserve to suffer.

Maybe it’s instinctive within each parent’s heart, to want to take over, in whatever ways possible the suffering of the child.

Q: How do you know that you’ve truly started working?

A: When everyone’s got exams and you haven’t… *cheeky grin greeted by threatening stares and glares from STUDENT OCFers*…

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Speaking about exams I think they got more manageable with each year (in my 6-year-uni-experience anyway). Still remember I used to get really bad tension headaches and insomnia in my first year, then it was racing thoughts and hyperactive mind in my second year. Third year med was kinda okay, so was fourth year (research year and the year where the exams didn’t really count towards anything, also incidentally the year where you get to spend your time doing lotsa things outside school like OCF.. hehe). Fifth year was the toughest (I think it’s the first time I cried - it was interviewstyle exams and I was nervous/stressed the night before, so my friend decided we should all take a break and just worship God and tears just flowed when we sang Enter In. I was just overwhelmed as His peace filled my heart, literally as the song goes "King of glory, enter in…" Final year was supposedly the most stressful but I think after 6 years I learnt to cultivate the trust and dependence on God, that He’d carry me through like how He’d graciously done so in the previous years. And He did.

He did it all, BECAUSE.

Funny now as I look back on my student years it’s become more obvious that the fingerprints of God are smeared right across each season. BIG enough to be the Creator of the universe, small enough that what matters to me matters to Him.

All the best for the exams, folks!!