I remember the first time I step in to that building. The building is old and has been repainted several times. I went alone. I am man enough to be there my self when later on, I heard from my other friends that they went to that building with their parents. It was January 2004. I lost my dad 2 years before due to ischeamic heart disease. I believe that it was the complication of his long standing type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Without doubt, I always feel sad when I talk about my student loan. For 5 years in the medical school, I have been sponsored by a government student loan. Supposedly, the government student loan is awarded to the students who had excel in their exams during secondary school or pre-university matriculation. I rarely one of them. In fact, I get my student loan because of my race. In my country, the native people will have this “special case status” where they will be prioritize in competition for scholarship or even for student loan.
This is my first week in anaesthesia posting. In fact, anaesthesia posting is my very first posting in my brand new semester 9. In my school, anesthesia posting is combined together with radiology posting. They are actually just a minor posting. When I say minor, it means that we suppose to have fun during the posting. What you expect to learn in duration of just 2 weeks on each posting? We need to understand that anesthesiology and radiology are actually a very specialize field. 2 weeks time is just a ridiculous duration for a medical student to know everything about “How to give gas?” and “How to see like a Superman?“. However, for surface exposure, I still believe that these 2 postings is very useful in term of giving exposure to medical student so that we know something about it. At the end of the day, this is medicine and you can’t afford to know nothing. LOL!