Salmonella Enteritidis

After 3 weeks of immunology-related PBLs, this week... *points to topic* we'll be playing around with microbiology. Heehee, as always, the only time I blog about my PBL is when I'm doing research on it, and is pissed off with it.

Doing the treatment bit.. found the site with all the info I want. Now, the only problem is that I AM LAZY!!! Muahaha.

A Special Day
Oo... saw in the KVPUG forum and in Dr Liew's site that today is Doctors' Day..

Seems that Mothers' day, Fathers' day, Teachers' day, Children's day, Secretaries' day... are all more "famous" than Drs' day.. more people know of it, do something special on that day to show their appreciation to the relevant people one that day.. Drs' day seem a little underrated eh? I didn't know 'bout this day until today. heehee. Shame on me!

So... To all doctors out there,
HAPPY DOCTORS' DAY!!!

To all aspiring drs out there...
Hopefully in time to come, someone will say "Happy Drs' Day" to us too! Haha. That means, my fellow students, work hard!!! (What are you doing online now.. GO STUDY) If you have some time, then why not take a few minutes off your books and think 'bout why you wanna study medicine, why you wanna be a dr and what being a future Dr might mean to you. If you're thinking noble thoughts (as I'm sure most of us are), then look deep inside and ask yourself if you really mean it. I think I'll be doing just that.

On Parallel Debates

Just came from a sucky debate. If you're unfamiliar with what parallel debates mean, then er.. draw 2 parallel lines, they never ever meet!!! I suck as a third speaker, so I guess I'll just stick to being the first. Muahaha.

Hmm.. maybe not TWO parallel lines, we had one line only?? 'cos er... everyone was talking about the same thing. Anyone wants the story, ask me in person lahz!

It's Down Again!!!

Must get broadband in apt soon. Must get broadband in apt soon. Must get broadband in apt soon. Must get broadband in apt soon. Must get broadband in apt soon. Must get broadband in apt soon. Must get broadband in apt soon. Must get broadband in apt soon. Must get broadband in apt soon. Must get broadband in apt soon. Must get broadband in apt soon. Must get broadband in apt soon. Must get broadband in apt soon. Must get broadband in apt soon. Must get broadband in apt soon.

The highly trustworthy IMU server strikes again!!! The one and only one that was working (ie. the library's server) last week, has also gone nuts. That means, I CAN'T DO ANYTHING. Can't do research for debate or for PBL. Hurray. An excuse for not doing my work. Wonderful. Grr... All I can do, is check email. ARGH. WHY DO I WANNA CHECK EMAIL AND BLOG AND NOT DO ANYTHING ELSE!!! ARRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...

Internet Speed

Upgraded to Basic 512k package last month because my brother needed the fastest connection he could get, if they allowed us to ungrade all the way to the Streamyx Enterprise, we would have done that (ya, bro had something to do and needed the fastest speed he could get). Anyway, 512k...that means I'm supposed to have a cap of 512kbps download speed.

When I tested the speed of my connection last year when I first got broadband connection, I had 321.something kbps (nice number right?) and I was on the 384k plan. So, happy lahz.. duh. Did the test again yesterday... results were terribly disappointing (200++ only). Just did it again this morning and got 357.28kbps. I'm not impressed. Not impressed at all. Bleahz. Upgrade=no upgrade. Bleahz. And the connection hasn't been very stable either. Grrr...

Let's just hope that when I get my nasioncom broadband connection in vista, it'll be less disappointing. Well, still waiting for the salesperson to call me so I guess it'll be at least a month before I try out nasioncom.

Saw some new links on CM's blog. SA & ZK have taken to blogging.. and G blogs also? Lotsa M1/03s getting into this eh? And an M1/04, M, I dunno. Hee, I dunno any M1/04s lah. well well... the way things are going, can start exclusive society already lor

Euthanasia
\Eu`tha*na"si*a\n The act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, as by lethal injection or the suspension of extraordinary medical treatment.

I am sure Euthanasia is a familiar topic to most students, especially those who have done General Paper. In fact, it's a topic most of us are sick of discussing about and writing on. I've written essays about it on several occasions and lo and behold! what must they ask me during med sch interview... but... "tell me what you think about euthanasia?" Now, here I am again, doing it for Moral Studies and we’ll be doing it in debates this coming Tuesday.

There are several types of Euthanasia, active/passive, voluntary/involuntary. I'll not explain the different types, but if you are interested, go to this site. So... let's get on with it.

Those who are pro-choice will argue that one should have the right to decide when and how he dies, to decide whether he wants to continue in his suffering. It is cruel and inhumane to deny someone death when it is the only way to relief his pain or distress. They may also say that death will happen anyway, and it is not always a bad thing.

Pro-life activists will say that there is no right for anyone to end a life, be it his or his loved one's. A religious pro-life activist will say that human life is sacred and that euthanasia is against the word and will of God. It also weakens one's respect for life and in a way shows that the life of a terminally illed or a disabled is worth less than that of another's. Of course, there is also the argument that with advancement in palliative care, euthanasia is now unnecessary. Lastly, euthanasia will create murderers. The one who administers will take a life, and that is murder, right?

I have never really taken a stand wrt euthanasia because I believe that each individual is unique and hence, each case is different. I think I tend towards being pro-life, but there may be exceptions. Hmm... highly controversial issue. I thought I'll blog about it since I've got to do a lot of reading up on it these days. Your views please?

Found an interesting article here, "Why You Need A Pro-Life Doctor".

New Cabinet

Pak Lah just announced the new cabinet. Here's the news from Star Online. Actually, I only went to look for it after seeing the post on MMR about the new health minister.

I'm not one to be really interested in politics, and ask me who made up the original cabinet, I won't be able to tell you 9 out of 10. So ya, shame on me. Guess that also means that I have no idea how things will change or if they will change in the first place with the new cabinet in place. Let's just hope that certain things that should have been put in place ages ago will be put in place and that we'll find improvements soon.

News Update

I might not be adjudicating after all. Sigh, because after thursday's session, I was asked to debate instead. Think I'll do it. I kinda enjoy doing it, although I think I suck at it and I don't like talking in front of a large group of people. And of course, V & S wanna pull out, so that means I have to find ANOTHER debator. Z's interested, I hope she agrees to debate. :)

Oh, added Tim to Med Peepz. Terribly late of me. Should have done that ages ago. Hee. Better late than never, ya?

Discrimination... or not

Just had PBL2, on HIV. Apart from the tremendous load of info my dear groupmates piled on me and made me realise that I'm not as smart as I think... the things I read up on yesterday in preparation for PBL also made me think. Seems that I'm not the only one with this point of view, because KY said the exact same thing during PBL.

I was doing on social issues wrt HIV/AIDS patients and got this:

"Many reports reveal the extent to which people are stigmatised and discriminated against by health care systems. Many studies reveal the reality of withheld treatment, non-attendance of hospital staff to patients, HIV testing without consent, lack of confidentiality and denial of hospital facilities and medicines."

"A survey conducted in 2002 among some 1,000 physicians, nurses and midwives in four Nigerian states, returned disturbing findings. One in 10 doctors and nurses admitted having refused to care for an HIV/AIDS patient or had denied HIV/AIDS patients admission to a hospital. Almost 40% thought a person's appearance betrayed his or her HIV-positive status, and 20%felt that people living with HIV/AIDS had behaved immorally and deserved their fate. One factor fuelling stigma among doctors and nurses is the fear of exposure to HIV as a result of lack of protective equipment. Also at play, it appears was the frustration at not having medicines for treating HIV/AIDS patients, who therefore were seen as 'doomed' to die."

from here.

HIV/AIDS victims are ill, they need healthcare, but what happens when *points to the above* there is discrimination against them, even in the healthcare industry??? Disturbing, isn't it. I wonder what the situation is like in Malaysia. Hmm...On the other hand, doctors, nurses and other people involved in healthcare are but HUMAN. Right? And which human being out there is not afraid of contracting HIV or AIDS?

In some instances, there are signs stating that a patient is HIV positive or has AIDS. The rationale behind this is that it serves to protect their caregivers and anyone else that might come into contact with them. Yes, no doubt this is important, but what if YOU are the one with the disease, how would you feel if there's a sign telling everyone that you're sick. Hmm...

Sometimes, the most practical thing may not be the best thing. Sometimes, for the wellbeing of the rest of the community, there is not choice but to be unfair to some. A lot to think about right?

IVF
thankz to the smart friends around me, we got the comps working... basically change proxy lah

No, it's not in vitro fertilisation, my dear readers. IVF, in this case, stands for Intra Varsity Friendly ie. the IMU inter batch DEBATE. Kudos to Sheena for thinking of the name. Just imagine, I got an email from her with the subject "IVF & Asians" I was like "HUH???" but she was actually talking about 2 different debates. :p

Anyway, thanks to my dear friend, I'm at risk of adjudicating... and it's like.. I HAVE NEVER ADJUDICATED IN MY LIFE!!! and coordinating the teams for my batch. My darling darling batch will have 2 teams. Yay. :) Rumours say that there are quite a few ex-school debators in sem 1. Grr... Well, doesn't matter, guess if everyone has the right attitude, winning or losing doesn't matter right? right??

Grr...

Good old blogger is acting up again. I can't see my latest 2 posts on the site. I can't see the latest posts on other people's site either. Sigh sigh sigh. Ok, so no one can see this post too, I guess. Doesn't matter anyway. Can read comments though, thanks to haloscan. can't reply 'cos I can't see the posts on my site, therefore the link isn't there for me to reply to the comments. Understand what I mean? sigh. Anyway, ya... I'll reply to the comments one fine day, when blogger decides to love me a little more.

Amazing

This is truly amazing. Everyone, pray for the little girl. :) It's really impressive what medicine can do these days.

Just so that you know what the article is about...

Alessia Di Matteo, aged eight months and from Genoa, received the liver, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, pancreas, spleen and two kidneys from a single donor, who was also an infant.

According to the article, little Alessia was born with smooth muscle disorder (megacystis microcolon syndrome) and underwent the organs transplant operation on 31st January when she was 6 months old. She will be on anti-rejection drugs for the rest of her life. The transplant was so massive that the doctors are not only worried about her rejecting the organs, but also the organs rejecting her. (!!!) Poor little girl. And one can only imagine what her parents had to go through.

Free Tix, Anyone?

IMU's got a thousand free tix to F1 tmr!!! Hillside, but free tix nonetheless. No announcement was made, they just stuck the email they got on the student lounge door and I think they forwarded the email to the batch reps. So... some people I know are going. But me... not going. Why leh? 'Cos I came back for the weekend!!! Yeah yeah, don't ask me why I keep coming back. I like my home mah. :p

Yupz, came home this morning and I found one other thing to add to the list of "things that piss me off". That's... *drum roll*... bus drivers that smoke in the bus!!! Hrmph. They stick a "no smoking" sign in the bus, and guess who are the two smokers during the whole trip??? Both the drivers! (Yeah, they switch drivers midway, I don't know why) Fine, so they only smoke when we're like 5 minutes away from our destination..but STILL.... %^(*#@

Pissed off

I'm sick and tired of spammers. First they spam mailboxes, then some on the handphones... now... VIOLA! They found their way to tagboards and comment boxes. Grr... Don't these people have anything better to do??? My jaring mailbox is no longer functioning 'cos everytime I check it, I dump all the mails... (so if you're still mailing to that account, I'm never going to read your mail.) and when I log on to my blog, I find myself looking at strange messages on my tagboard and comment box which in turn makes me log on to my commenting system and my tagboard to delete them. This is crazy. Grr...

I'm sick and tired of calculative people. I think the world will be a better place if people will stop being too calculative! Is there a point??? Sheesh. Don't understand don't understand. Why must they be so calculative and in turn create tension all over the place? Really don't understand.

I'm sick and tired of people who have a very very VERY bad command of english. Ok, doesn't matter if your english sucks and you don't use it. The trick here is that IF IT SUCKS, DON'T USE IT! Get it? Alternatively, go for english lessons! It doesn't really matter if your english is not good, as long as it doesn't SUCK BIG TIME. I'm not saying that my command of the language is superb. Because, ladies and gentlemen, IT ISN'T! In fact, it isn't very good. However, I am proud to say that I speak in a language that people can understand. Someone sent something to Raj and Raj asked me what it meant. Took both of us 5 minutes to figure out what the person was saying. Why? Simple, because there was NO PUNCTUATION
and the command of english sucks big time. My 4 year old nephew can speak better english. *irritated*

Change of topic...
After A Long Day

I'm tired and crazy (no doubt an unlikely combination) after a super long day. *points at previous post* Just got out of patho lab and I don't think I could identify A THING. *bangs head on wall* I can't tell the difference between the cells either. There was this senior pointing out.. there.. that's a epitheloid cell and that's another and another. All I could do was go "huh?" Then he tried drawing, doesn't help much. I'm still as blur. Poor guy, he tried very very hard, I think.

Went to Karmal (eh.. dunno how to spell) earlier this afternoon and came back a few hundred bucks poorer. S-I-G-H Better use all those books, otherwise, it'll be a total waste of money. Thought I was going to buy papa but bought mama instead (nevermind if you don't understand what I'm saying), think I'll buy papa in a few months' time. I'm nuts, yes, I know that.

-I'm obviously in a bad mood today. Bleahz. Guess I'm using this as an avenue to vent my anger at certain issues.-

Friday

It's friday. What's friday? Friday is the day before the weekend starts, it's supposed to be super free. Is my friday super free? NO!!! Let's see. My friday started at 7.30am, when we "decided" to have a discussion 'bout the apartment. Guess that spoilt someone's day lah. Then it was lecture from 8am. I went without breakfast and when T started going on and on 'bout "cheese-like" appearance, my stomach went "grr..grr.." *sobz* Hungry lah. Then, I was supposed to go for Q&A, but ya lah.. heehee. Free all the way till 4pm (stupid timetable) when I'll be having patho lab till so I guess we'll be making our way down to the bookstore like hardworking students. This means that I'll be a few hundred bucks poorer by the end of the day. To make things worse, I still haven't really decided on what books to get!!! *bangs head against wall*

There... That's my plan for this wonderful day called FRIDAY. Notice the absence of "going out and party after a long and tiring week". Better do something about it... hmm...

*Patho lab later, somehow, I think I won't understand a thing. All the pics the lecturer showed us today look the same to me. Sigh. I suck at patho. Period.

Impressive People = Scary People

Just had PBL today. Er... PBL 2, so it's a case of "see how hardcore my group is" and it's like FWAH!!! *pengz on the floor both legs in the air* Let's see... This week's trigger is on systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) .. yeah yeah.. my first reaction was "what in the world is that?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" Anyway, it's over and it has shown that my PBL group (with the exception of me) is made up of very hardworking people, who say a lot of stuff that poor me can't comprehend. *grumble* Hmm... cannot bitch about PBL here because dear Adeline has my url. Yes, dear Adeline who just announced that she isn't going to do her AIR. Hmm.. haha. :P Better run away before she reads this.

Up next is CSU. History taking. Sigh. That means I'll be in school until 4pm at least. Double sigh. What happened to good old sem1 days??? HRMPH. I think I'll blog about the CSU session later. One thing though, they always make me feel ugly. 'Cos we film everything down and GOSH! I'm super NOT photogenic!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Life is unfair. HRMPH

-I'm in e-lab3 and some people around me are doing their SILOS assessment. Me, I can't even remember the url to the intranet. *digs a hole and hides*-

Muahaha Regret Like Crazy

Update after CSU: I didn't hafta do it... I didn't hafta do it... 'cos sweet Adeline did it instead. My turn will come (sigh) next time. This time 'round was fever... next will be pain. Hmm... somehow I should have done this one. Next CSU sounds harder and 'cos it's the 2nd session they'll have higher expectations also. Grr... Ok, now I'm starting to regret! (er.. can I push Adeline to do the next one also??) *evil grin*

*note to self* Shi Ching aka Acidulous is brilliant. Must remember to be nice to him.

Today

'Cos Adeline is sitting next to me and blogging about today's lectures, I thought I'll do the same thing. Muahaha. *copycat* To quote my beautiful cum popular friend "Today's class was quite interesting", er... let's see. First lecture on Thymus and T-Lymphocytes had my attention until the end 'cos I felt guilty 'bout missing so many lectures lah. Second lecture on immunoglobulins, well... Zzz... At least I was sleeping until "Breastfeeding is like liposuction" and I went "HUH???" and viola! I was awake! A pity that bit only came towards the end of the lecture though, otherwise I would have picked up more. Haha. Both lectures did make me learn one thing. I NEED TO REVISE :p

Somehow, IMU's IT dept decided to do something to the servers and both lecturers had problems logging into their accounts and hence, with starting the lecture on time. Grr... they make us do OLIS, SILOS and goodness know what but day after day, the uni's server is cranky, not all the PCs can be used. In fact, I don't even remember a time when all the PCs in e-lab 3 is alive at the same time. Let's not even talk about the new e-lab. HRMPH!

Books... Books... Books

Got back to school and the hassle of books buying. Grr... Don't know how much I gonna spend this sem on photocopying (no one is suppose to preach to me about copyrights ahz..) and buying books. Bleahz. Then discovered that the mass ordering is still more expensive than going down to the bookstore, so next monday gonna pia down to KL. Everyone pray that there's no jam k? And ya, needa decide what books to get. Not like last sem, very few choices... or rather, no choice. Hmm... I'm a lazy pig.

Oo... recently, more and more people in IMU are picking up "blogging".. strange leh. Last year, it was just the very few of us. Just added Adeline and Seng Keat to my med peepz list. Wonder if there are more out there... hmm...

Back to school

*points to topic* Ooii!!! how many times has this topic appeared in my blog ahz? and we're talking about back to school for the same semester! Grr... ok, let's hope this time round, everything will be better, no need to rush down to academic affairs then pia home. Bleahz.

Wondering what's been happening in school these days. I've been away for a WEEK! missed... *count fingers count toes* 10 lectures, 2PBLs. I'm like sooooooo dead. A came on friday night and brought me last week's notes. Read 2 pages and I was like "huh???" so I guess I better buck up. No more slacking for me this sem. Otherwise won't be able to understand anything, don't even need to talk about doing well lah.

J said that blood donation drive is coming up. Yay!!! Heehee. Don't know why leh, I like sitting down there, have something poked into my arm, knowing that I'm doing something good. Heehee. Still remember that last semester, I donated blood, the same day went to the guys' place to play mahjong overnight, and sheesh..the next morning cannot even walk straight. This time round, don't think so already. Maybe will mug overnight instead.. muahahaha.

Dumb me

Dumb me got into an accident today. And of all cars, I had to be driving my mom's merc. Banged into a pillar, AT HOME somemore.... (ya, told you I'm dumb) totally freaked. Ya, now... super freaked. Like damn scared. Think I won't be driving for ages. No shit. I'm freaked. The poor car repair.. dunno gotta repair how many k ... Stupid me. *bangs myself on the head*

It's over

I guess now that everything's over, it's almost time for me to head back to school. Yes, to those pple that didn't know, I only attended 1 day of the first week of school. Wanna know why?? *points at previous post* go figure. Don't ask me lah, I'm not ready to talk 'bout it yet.

Well... I'll be glad to get back to school, a lot of catching up to do, I guess. Sigh. Will be super worried about her though. Now that he's gone, she'll be alone at home. The whole thing just sucks lah. Argh. My life's going into mode cranky now. I wonder if she'll be alright at home. Bro will be around until end of the month, then he'll hafta head back to US... and she'll be really alone. I can only be back during weekends. Sigh. Just sucks sucks sucks!!!

Sometimes, I hate the way life is treating people. It's so unfair. He's such a great guy and all... but still... sigh. It's one of those things that nothing anyone does will make any difference, so I guess it's time to stop sighing 'bout it. Someone mentioned that she (actually "we" is a better term here) will never get over it, but can only come to terms with it. I totally agree. He is, after all, so close to us. I love him, I really really do. I don't say it. I quarrel with him all the time, but... I love him. I think that's the case with both of them too. We just have to learn to let go..and eventually come to terms with it. Hai...

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9th March 2004, 8.50am. He left.

Pale and WBC

Ok, so after I posted my previous post (this sounds farnie), I went on to doing my PBL. This week's PBL is on immunology. Everyone else gets to snatch an immunology book off the bookshelf and do their stuff... everyone but me. *grumbles* *whines* Me.... *points to topic* Ok, those 2 terms might not have anything to do with each other, but they are the 2 terms that are killing me right now. I don't know why the boy is pale, I don't know why his WBC count won't go up. I've this super strong feeling I'll be looking up all the other learning issues before I find my answer. Grrr... Yeah, I'm definitly not in a wonderful mood right now, and far from patient.

added after 30 minutes
Found my answer!!! Found my answer!!! (to the bit 'bout pallor) Doesn't help at all that it's in the trigger, staring at me though. Makes me even more pissed. Ok, now that I've got the basic bit, I can get on with it. WBC can wait. I've got a big headache now, btw.

A trying day

So, it's the first day of school today. First day in the life of a sem 2. Nah, not that bad lah. Just er... hafta be prepared for a "little" heavier workload than last sem. Hmm... Had my first PBL for the sem, am in the library now, supposed to be preparing for PBL 2 on thursday. But er... ya lah. My PBL group for foundation 2 seems nice. Quite a few are people I'm quite close to. Wonder what working with them will be like. I mean, playing is one thing, working is another right?? I guess things will be ok. :) (At least something in my life is working out fine) Oh, and I think my faci's pretty OK too! But it's only PBL 1, wonder what he's like during PBL 2s.

Hmm... timetable for this sem's out. Let's see. Gonna wake up bright and early all the way from now till end of may, then it's "welcome to the world of afternoon lectures" Haiz... Hmm... the audi's more comfy than LT1 though. Nicer seats, I think. Maybe I'll be able to sleep better too!!! Muahahahahaha.

It's not only the day that school starts, it's also the day that he's going to be discharged. (To those that don't know about the situation, this is not good news) I'm at the stage where... everytime my phone rings, I jump. Sigh. Wonder when things are going to happen, really don't want things to happen. But I guess crying doesn't help, just hafta face it. Went to the dean's office just now to find out the procedures of taking leave, so I guess I'm supposed to be typing a letter now... or maybe in a while's time. Don't know. I was staring at the blank microsoft word screen, don't know what to do. I've never been superb at writing letters, especially formal one, but this one seems a million times more difficult. Don't know. I'm filled with "don't knows" these days, the whole feeling just sucks big time. Argh.

Sch's starting!!!

*points* at last. Well, got news from Sheena that lectures at 8am on Monday. Wonderful ya? 8am on the 8th. Easy to remember, but not easy to wake up. Heehee. Considering most of us are used to waking up well past noon, and the "morning" we know is also the time we start heading off to bed. Okie dokiez, anyone wanna give poor YP a morning call? Bleahz.

He's not doing well. Did I mention that life sucks?

Right or Privilege

Saw this on NST's website: "Medical care is not a privilege but the right of every citizen" *nod nod* *agree agree* but what's the point of saying this when we know that the situation is still the same! Let's see.. "got money, go private hosp, no need to wait.. no money, *points to long long queue* go wait lah!" Somebody, DO something!

Btw, the article was not about this *points at post*. The whole rights or privilege thing just got me worked up.

Bubblewrap

Don't know if you guys like this, but I do. Heehee. You know those plastic bubblewrap things that they use for packing? Well, it used to be more common ages ago, but with more widespread use of styrofoam these days, you find less and less bubblewraps. Still remember when I was young and they used it when packing aircons... then used to find loads of them in my parents' office. Loved to burst them. So when Millie sent me this, it's like.. "ok, no real thing, the virtual version isn't too bad after all" Try it. *super wu liao*

Back up north... for school :(

I'm heading north again tomorrow morning!!! Why? 'Cos I realised that I've got 101 things left undone and school's starting soon!!! He's still in critical care but Dr says there's slight improvement, so I guess it's alright for me to go back. Will be in JB again next weekend though, hopefully by then, the strange machines would have disappeared and he'll be in a normal ward talking to me. *prays hard*

On a different note, SCHOOL'S STARTING!!! Ok, the 2 months had been B-O-R-I-N-G but now that school's starting in less than a week's time, where did my 2 months go??? Argh argh argh. Was looking at the academic calender and realised that the next break is in May... *sobz* Was just thinking sem 2 looks kinda short, then started counting and readlised that it's actually longer than sem 1. 12 weeks of foundation 2, 5 weeks of CVS, 3 weeks of GP posting/Hosp/Lab. *count fingers count toes* Ok, that makes 20 weeks. Then 2 weeks break. Situation kinda bleak ahz... *sobz sobz*

Hmm... with school comes lectures, CSUs and of course, the much dreaded PBLs (er... did I miss out anything? Seremban hosp, maybe??) Wonder what the time table will be like. Heard that there'll be lectures in the afternoon somewhere along the way. Perfect time for my afternoon nap. Heehee. Both PBL 1 and 2 will be in the same week. -Mental note: guai guai do research... dun delay dun delay- . Hmm... this sem must work hard liaoz, hopefully I'll do better than last sem. Haiz... Ooo... haven't started on elective report yet, let's hope that A didn't waste the week away. Heh heh.

Life or Death
This post is not about euthanasia though it may sound like it does. Why? Well.. 1. Euthanasia is not a choice right now. 2. The main gist of the post is in its first sentence. 3. I'm definitly NOT talking 'bout killing the Pt, not here or now.

If one were to make a decision about living or dying, is living always the right choice? Or is it just the easier choice? (I'm not only talking with regards to the person himself) Sometimes, one wonders if there's a 'right' choice to begin with. Well, if we're talking about a healthy person with no worries about dying the next day, then I guess the person and others around him will not even think about death. Unless, of course, that person is affected with extreme paranoia.

What about a terminally ill patient? Look at it this way, after months and months of treatment, there's barely any improvement. You know that there's no way out other than death and that he will be suffering until the day he leaves. Of course, he knows it too. Should treatment continue? Should the battle continue? Is it cruel to stop treatment? It's as if you're telling the person "there's no hope, you just have to wait your time out". If the side effects of the treatment is too much to bear, then is it even worse to continue the treatment?

Some questions, I think there may be no proper answers. It'll be nice to hear your views though.

Something to ponder about "When money cease to be the problem, the real problem starts." Is this related to the post, well... think!

-This post was editted by the blog owner on 3rd March 2004 at 5.54am-