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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk: February 2014
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk. Sunday, 23 February 2014. Block: Community medicine, week 2. Chorea, or St Vitus' Dance, is the occurrence of short, purposeless, involuntary movements of the face, heads, hands and feet. Movements are sudden, but the affected person may hold the new posture for several seconds." - Black's Medical Dictionary, 42nd edition. At medical school this basic understanding was slightly expanded upon with the inclusion of some facts about CAG repeats, PolyQ tracts, and mutant Hun...
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk: September 2014
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk. Friday, 26 September 2014. Third year and the rest of second year. Block: Cardiology, week 4. Right So. What's been going on since February? Well I finished that community medicine placement and was launched into my first clinical rotations. Here's what I think of them so far. In general, I've found them all (with one notable exception) to be interesting and engaging, but I can't imagine doing any of them for a career. The description given here. Generally very interesti...
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk: November 2014
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk. Wednesday, 19 November 2014. Block: Anaesthetics, week 4. Not sure if this counts as a trigger but uh.if you don't want to read about miscarriages.don't read any further). It's the middle of the night and I have to be back at the hospital in less than 7 hours, but I can't sleep. I tried and I lay awake in bed for about 30 minutes, but I don't think I'll be able to drop off until I get this off my chest. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Cart...
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk: Grey Wednesday
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk. Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Block: Obstetrics and Gynaecology, week 7. I am slowly turning into a (potential) doctor. It's finally beginning to hit me. The excuses are beginning to run out. The. It's quite a realisation. People will actually expect me to know shit and do shit. Not everything by any means, but still, some things. And I feel ever-so-very-slightly incompetent pretty much all the time. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk. 25 August 2015 at 17:17. The Hall of Fame.
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk: November 2013
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk. Friday, 22 November 2013. End of pre-clinical medicine/Revision begins. There are two quite significant things which have been playing on my mind today:. The end of pre-clinical medicine. I'm also very happy that I (hopefully, assuming I pass) will never have to go to any more crappy small group work sessions again. Seriously, I really like everyone in my group, but it's been such a waste of time really - I could have worked much better through things at my own pace!
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk: April 2015
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk. Thursday, 30 April 2015. Elective or: how I learned to stop worrying and regain my perspective. Block: Colorectal surgery, week 1. Also, surgeons are infamous for being massive grillers - they will ask you awkward questions, stare at you impassively whilst you try and piece together a coherent answer, then play all sorts of mind games with you once you actually come up with an answer. For example, they may ask - with a smirk or quizzically raised eyebrow -. However, I fo...
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk: December 2013
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk. Saturday, 21 December 2013. We finished our year 2 exams. Early last week and we got our results yesterday - and I am extremely relieved to be able to say that I've managed to pass into the next phase of the course! After the pass list was published, we were sent our individual scores, and this was how mine looked:. Papers 1 and 2: 17/20 SAQ sets passed - pass mark: 13. OSCEs: 7/10 stations passed - pass mark: 7. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk. It's pretty weird to hav...
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk: September 2013
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk. Saturday, 7 September 2013. In the run up to the summer exams I didn't really go out at all with the work, so my body has rather overestimated how much drink I can handle, so I'm paying for it now, and unfortunately I'm not yet qualified to administer the " Cadillac of all hangover cures. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk. Attempting to negotiate the magical mystery tour that is graduate entry medicine.
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Grumpy Biomed: Acceptance Afternoon
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Wednesday, 4 July 2012. Currently listening to: Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five. Paul McCartney and Wings. I must say, there is nothing quite as nerve-wracking as walking into a room filled with a hundred strangers who are all chatting.and you're alone and looking flustered as your bus turned up later than you expected. Very nerve-wracking indeed.my initial thought was, "how do they all know eachother? As a medical student! The next time I go back will be in the first week of September when I officially...
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Grumpy Biomed: August 2011
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Wednesday, 31 August 2011. The inevitable "where the hell should I apply? Currently listening to: Ocean Drive. As forecasted by Tofu. 8221; Which probably means I'm a pessimistic optimist and therefore not really an optimist at all. But no matter since I got 697.5 in my UKCAT which would have been above last years cut-offs for most places, so now I finally feel like I can make this post without it just being pointless talk. I've written what they're looking for, but how do I really know? Barts and The Lo...
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