Hectic day today, with trauma round, ward rounds, clinics and then OT! Let's see what i've learnt today:

On the train: Don't leave your house until you've decided you won't need the toilet especially if the hospital you're going to is far from civilization. It was such a horrible feeling being trapped in a full train needing the toilet lah.

Trauma round: There are many ways of solving a problem, and what you think is right may not be until you seek the opinion of others. Patient with a pathological fracture (fracture of an abnormally weakened bone) of the femur through a bone cyst got the consultants discussing for a good 10minutes just on how to position the patient and incision to make for the operation!

Ward rounds: That orthopaedic surgeons are not just all brawn and no brains. Mr Lim managed to get a patient to consent to CVVH (a form of temporary dialysis) as a hip infection superimposed on her poorly controlled diabetes kinda messed up her kidneys.

Clinics: Patients lie sometimes, but we should still try to believe them until proven otherwise. Indian man came in complaining of shoulder impingement pain despite operation, and a trial of local anaesthetic in the clinic. If his pain was genuine, the LA would have abolished it but he claimed it was still there! Otherwise, we learnt a lot from clinics w.r.t. common orthopaedic conditions and the importance of clear effective communication.

OT: There was only 1 op today for an old ah ma who suffered a Gardens VI(complete displaced fracture) neck of femur who underwent a hip hemiarthroplasty (hip replacement). Zhipeng cameoed in the op by scrubbing up and i think he will make a very good male lead for Saw 5 given how he sawed off the bone with ease! Mr Lim's been really nice to us, letting us scrub up and assisting in the ops =]

Had wanted to go to the gym after reaching home BUT i ended up dotaing with ZP and eating milk chocolates! Bad! And what's worse was when the game was getting exciting, all of us fatal errored. Sian 3/4! I'd better stop procrastinating and restart my gym routine if not each session is gonna get exponentially expensive since i'm paying on a monthly basis =\

On a lighter note (gosh, this post can't get anymore serious than this), Jason Castro is finally out of AI7! He can't sing for nuts, and his hair is a total disaster. I'm just so glad people power made the right choice, for if Syesha got kicked out i would've boycotted the show loh.
wongy was here on 10:31 PM