Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Collected part of my brain in the service centre

Laptop got stroke

cannot even reach windows

thought it was static

and it wasnt

make up my mind to sent to service centre

3 hours to reach there

thanks to the misleading address in the not-so-updated official website which did not include a
phone number

Friday went in OT n monday only come out

transplant was done

luckily i still got warenty

Lesson of the day (1) treat her nicely n gentlely (2) always extend ur warenty for ur laptop (3) Hewlett Packard provides good service :-)

Saturday, April 15, 2006

The elderly had passed

Finished my geriatric posting, really Eng Eng Cheng Cheng, went for some lectures, did some patients clerking (more to listening to their His/Her-story n made them annoyed by doing the mini-mental test), n presented some cases. The challenging part was for me to ask the patient 100 minus 7 equals-to how much n did not make them look like an idiot. The sad part was i did make some of them look like an idiot as they cant answer the question (e.g. due to dementia or bla bla bla). Fun? ya, i think so.

Certain things tht been taught in lecture, where i ve gone thru personally really hit me. The lectures introduces the problem but no definate solutions. ""How and why an old person fall, how fall make the person's disease deteriorate, giants of geriatric like pressure sore when bed ridden, delirium in the disease state. How patient deal with terminal ill disease, how he/she face death, how u face death of someone u love, anticipationly or even aniversarily, how the family members face breakdown on system of taking care of the patient, issues of trying alternative medicine, issue of feeling bad on getting relief when patient pass away (e.g. not doing enough n etc), process of grief n reorganization."" i had tht experience, why there wasnt any dortor there to tell such thing going to happen, dunno? not their business? or juz relectant to tell or there is not point telling as it's out of their duty ........ Doctor cure, but how far should doctor care?