Honeymoon Year

In high school, it's the best year. Reasons being
*elegant classroom : air conditioned, tinted windows, tiled floor, no need to decorate the class
*bonding time with friends. got coolest of classmates. doesn't matter anymore if people think we are the geek collection of our batch and avoid going into our class.
*interesting subjects.although 90% of the time chemistry is as hard as it can be and studying physics is almost like doing astrophysics.

Gambaq diambil dari Fb Ridzuan.

In medical school, at least here, honeymoon year is a year filled with clinical subjects. you can say it's an introduction to specialisations in medicine. It's the most boring year ever I don't enjoy the ride at all. I was even thinking how foolish it is to fall into the trap of being able to study overseas. I mean, I could study my favourite course eventhough it means only schooling in Malaysia and graduated by now and fly anywhere I want jobwise and travelwise (the jobs offered are highly paid one). Well, I reckon 5th year would bring back my passion and confidence in doing Medicine. These are what I can conclude from my honeymoon year in medical school




Radiology and Nuclear Medicine : my absolute favourite. I love sunshine and being surrounded by people while  this specialty involves individual job and dark room. Here's the catch ~ I am excellent at finding faults and people, that is what you need in this specialty.

Dentisry : Learned how to brush teeth at 22nd year-old, so many years after the first course on how to brush your teeth in elementary. Gotta say elementary's is the best ~ got misi yang penyayang and giant dental arch + toothbrush. Realised that it's a good choice that I don't do stomatology. I prefer twiddling and cutting anywhere on human body except for the mouth area.

Neurology : what you hear isn't necessarily right but what you see, they are most probably right than wrong. Same principle applied for sthetoscope and neurological hammer. The cases in neurology mostly are fascinating. Diagnosis most of the time is spot on. Your patient will either be going downhill, stay the same or get better. But most of the time, the latter is not the case. Neurology is somewhat interesting but I feel indifferent towards it.

Internal Medicine : solving the puzzle. plenty of everything except for free time. loves it.

Surgery : procedures and more procedures. Realising that I suffered from serangan sotong a.k.a orthostatic intolerance, I know the ambition to be a surgeon is as clear as the ambition to be a pilot when you are near sighted.

Anesthesiology and Resuscitative Medicine : Pharmacology + procedures. Gassing people, poking people with needles and tubes. Get to be in surgery while not worrying about ploping down from the warmth and long time standing. I was born to love it

Emergency Medicine : anything can walk in through that door. in terms of illness and also people from all walks of life. Shortlisted as my top 3 but demoted after I realise how gory the scene can be back home. Orang kena parang, cangkul terbenam dalam kepala.

Sports Medicine : made me realise how much weight I have put on and how unfit I've become. Instead of motivating me to specialised in this, it motivates me to be fit and get back into shape.

Dermatology : everything looks the same. they even have complex about naming. you can't say it's erythema because it's too general but you can name a single disease with 3 names.

So that pretty sums up my conclusion of 4th year.