after looking back all those years i've spent here in egypt
i find it a miracle i survived ^_^
and towards reaching the end, i question myself again...if i really wanna become a doctor?
why did i choose this path of life before?
am i strong enough?
will i pass???...
insyaAllah kheir...never underestimate the power of du'a
and Allah has eased me from the beginning of my breath, i'll do fine (self motivating..hee)
well...we (few of gen6 that are left) had an iftar with Prof Dr Heba Mustofa today
she is the malaysian student coordinator,
but this year is different...
apart from just being our coordinator, she willingly volunteered to be our private tutor for clinical internal medicine. every thursday from 2-4 (tho i usually reach class at 2.30...erk)
thus, we became ever so close ^_^
thanx to our friend Eckm, for arranging the time and venue
we had it here!
so, before iftar...Dr Heba hand down some pretty great advices to become a doctor
she said, (from what i remembered...and it's edited...sorry, no pen n pencil on that day, simply my vague memory)
being a doctor doesn't just mean treating our patients physics,
they have a psychology part too
in the ward rounds, remember to allocate enough time for each patient when you go from bed to bed
all day long the patient bears staying in the hospital just to wait for the doctor's visit
do not treat them like a pile of work you need to finish
being a doctor, you may not feel this
but once you are in the patient's shoe, you'll appreciate the time spent on you
i remembered one day my grandma was hospitalized due to a fractured femur
all her children and grandchildren waited at the hospital for the doctor's visit
and when the doctor came, he said 'you're fine, she's fine...you can go home!'
and that is all we wanted to hear...that she's fine...it relieves us
each and every patient you'll meet, you'll learn something from them
each patient, so treat them well
choose carefully which branch you wanna go into
either internal medicine or surgery
if you are not into blood and mess and cutting people, take internal medicine
it needs great courage to cut people open and skills too to perform the surgeries
i remembered my rounds in the surgical department and the first week was in the emergency department
i got home and i vomit!
we had this patient coming with and amputated index
and my friend, put the index finger in the patient's hand and said 'go to the operating theater'
and they had and argument
'how could you give me my finger like that and ask me to go to the theater? you don't have any heart!'
it really is bad to put part of a person's body in his hand and ask him to go to the operating theater just like that, but we were busy at that time and have lots of other patients.
so, choose well
study well for your final exams,
once you finish studying, you'd realize that every topic is all connected
human is one
there is not just cardiology, or neurology, or gastroenterology...every part is connected
and there is no theoretical or clinical...everything is related
study them well
and while you study, you will realize 'why havn't i read this before?' hehe
and while you're taking your MD exam you'll say 'why havn't i studied this well while i was an undergraduate'
and when you'll become a professor, you'd say the same.
the first three years of your career will be tough
i remembered my residency
we had to work almost 24 hours
i sometimes didn't sleep for 2 days
and once in Ramadhan, a patient came arrested exactly at azan al Maghreb
and i had to make mouth to mouth breathing (at that time the hospital were not really well equipped like now)
after that, i couldn't eat, and patients came in back to back...until fajr and i continued fasting without eating
when i look back, i can't imagine i had passed those 3 years and i don't think i wanna do that again
but alhamdulillah, it's passed now...and you'll face it, kheir insyaAllah
i have more to tell you but this is so sudden
thank you for organizing this iftar
____________________________________________________________
: )
those are what my memory still remember
though we definitely chat more than that
hope it benefits those who weren't there and am sure you'd have wanna come
(hehehe...specifically to nadiah :p)
hmmmm...
the journey is proclaimed by many to be a difficult one
though those who lives to share the journey succeed awesomely
well,
i find it a miracle i survived ^_^
and towards reaching the end, i question myself again...if i really wanna become a doctor?
why did i choose this path of life before?
am i strong enough?
will i pass???...
insyaAllah kheir...never underestimate the power of du'a
and Allah has eased me from the beginning of my breath, i'll do fine (self motivating..hee)
well...we (few of gen6 that are left) had an iftar with Prof Dr Heba Mustofa today
she is the malaysian student coordinator,
but this year is different...
apart from just being our coordinator, she willingly volunteered to be our private tutor for clinical internal medicine. every thursday from 2-4 (tho i usually reach class at 2.30...erk)
thus, we became ever so close ^_^
thanx to our friend Eckm, for arranging the time and venue
we had it here!
indian dish pulak (i feel like i have multinationality...hehehe)
so, before iftar...Dr Heba hand down some pretty great advices to become a doctor
she said, (from what i remembered...and it's edited...sorry, no pen n pencil on that day, simply my vague memory)
being a doctor doesn't just mean treating our patients physics,
they have a psychology part too
in the ward rounds, remember to allocate enough time for each patient when you go from bed to bed
all day long the patient bears staying in the hospital just to wait for the doctor's visit
do not treat them like a pile of work you need to finish
being a doctor, you may not feel this
but once you are in the patient's shoe, you'll appreciate the time spent on you
i remembered one day my grandma was hospitalized due to a fractured femur
all her children and grandchildren waited at the hospital for the doctor's visit
and when the doctor came, he said 'you're fine, she's fine...you can go home!'
and that is all we wanted to hear...that she's fine...it relieves us
each and every patient you'll meet, you'll learn something from them
each patient, so treat them well
choose carefully which branch you wanna go into
either internal medicine or surgery
if you are not into blood and mess and cutting people, take internal medicine
it needs great courage to cut people open and skills too to perform the surgeries
i remembered my rounds in the surgical department and the first week was in the emergency department
i got home and i vomit!
we had this patient coming with and amputated index
and my friend, put the index finger in the patient's hand and said 'go to the operating theater'
and they had and argument
'how could you give me my finger like that and ask me to go to the theater? you don't have any heart!'
it really is bad to put part of a person's body in his hand and ask him to go to the operating theater just like that, but we were busy at that time and have lots of other patients.
so, choose well
study well for your final exams,
once you finish studying, you'd realize that every topic is all connected
human is one
there is not just cardiology, or neurology, or gastroenterology...every part is connected
and there is no theoretical or clinical...everything is related
study them well
and while you study, you will realize 'why havn't i read this before?' hehe
and while you're taking your MD exam you'll say 'why havn't i studied this well while i was an undergraduate'
and when you'll become a professor, you'd say the same.
the first three years of your career will be tough
i remembered my residency
we had to work almost 24 hours
i sometimes didn't sleep for 2 days
and once in Ramadhan, a patient came arrested exactly at azan al Maghreb
and i had to make mouth to mouth breathing (at that time the hospital were not really well equipped like now)
after that, i couldn't eat, and patients came in back to back...until fajr and i continued fasting without eating
when i look back, i can't imagine i had passed those 3 years and i don't think i wanna do that again
but alhamdulillah, it's passed now...and you'll face it, kheir insyaAllah
i have more to tell you but this is so sudden
thank you for organizing this iftar
____________________________________________________________
: )
those are what my memory still remember
though we definitely chat more than that
hope it benefits those who weren't there and am sure you'd have wanna come
(hehehe...specifically to nadiah :p)
jangan jealous...hihihi
hmmmm...
the journey is proclaimed by many to be a difficult one
though those who lives to share the journey succeed awesomely
well,
إِنَّمَا الأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّات
وَإِنَّمَا لِكُلِّ امْرِىءٍ مَا نَوَى
i invite anyone to share in if i've missed any valuable advice that you remembered ^_^
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