Still alive, no rejoicing yet (sorry)
I got bored while not attending a lecture and waiting for a tute, so I decided to write a post, because I haven't for a while
Personal
I have a boyfriend. And have for….getting on towards 4 months now (scary stuff). His name is Tim. He’s pretty neat and I like him. The end. Family are well. Life not too hard. Issues with the tax department partially resolved. I’m only up to about 50-odd books for the year, and am in danger of not meeting my plan of two a week this year. So on and so forth.
Uni
Med is…I don’t know really. I’m enjoying being back in, but I wouldn’t actually be remotely surprised if I failed this year, because I’m just….blergh. I don’t know. Avoidant of patients? Geriatrics was an easy pass; musculo I handed in an incomplete (radically) 30% assessment and I’m not sure if I passed or not, because it’s not listed as a pass/fail thing, but faculty seems to think it is (because they’re morons who don’t check what they put on assessment sheets)(I got ~55% for the unit without the 30% thing because that is actually how retarded the unit is); surgery was more interesting than I thought it would be, but I still almost failed because the consultant didn’t think they’d seen me around much (the reason for this was that I was avoiding them, primarily because it’s on their instructions that I raped someone (this claim, is, of course, relatively hyperbolic, but performing a non-consensual vaginal exam on an unconscious patient is definitely one of those fringe cases)); psych is good, but the wards are pretty bland, to be honest, and the consultant seems to have decided he’s not seeing me much, and is complaining to the interns (I find this ironic, because when I went and introduced myself to him last week (the first week on the wards) he was very "are you the only one? Where is the other one? I haven't seen them." The tables, how they have turned); I’m technically failing pharm, path and ID, but this is largely because I keep forgetting to do online assessments so my average gets dragged down by a string of zeroes (the mid-sems were all floating around 45-55%, despite not going to any lectures or reading any lecture notes, which I am satisfied with, because hey, there is no mark below an almost pass, and they should all have been dismal if there was a grand universal sense of justice); I still need to chase up what’s happening with the research project I’ve already finished.
Conclusion: I may pass, but I probably shouldn’t.
I don’t know. Things just aren’t capturing my interest with med. I think it’s to do with how retarded so much of the rhetoric around it is. Professionalism, as taught, is essentially crap (this article is a pretty good summary of why). It may not be immediately evident, but even the language of things like disability activism is also really screwed: it’s basically set up so that doctors (or not-doctor health professionals) can provide the same services as their colleagues, but get a greater profit out of it (mine is called ‘professionalism’, yours is called ‘client focused service provision’; mine is called ‘patient care’; yours is called ‘a holistic approach to client wellbeing.’). It’s really dodgy. (It's not actually *all* about that, but enough of it is to make the rest highly suspect).
Grand summary: a med student who is having doubts about their future. SHOCK HORROR
Alternative summary: Dr Tom is, once more, in danger of passing despite his best efforts to the contrary.
In an additional note, I just sent off an e-mail asking about whether I’d meet the requirements for a Masters in Ethics at ANU. If they say yes, I may be on track for more degree madness. Hooray!
Other
I had some rants that I was planning on writing, but then I forgot what they were and now I don’t know why I put this section in. So instead, I’ll tell anyone who doesn’t know that the Bloggess is one of the greatest (worst) people ever.
Personal
I have a boyfriend. And have for….getting on towards 4 months now (scary stuff). His name is Tim. He’s pretty neat and I like him. The end. Family are well. Life not too hard. Issues with the tax department partially resolved. I’m only up to about 50-odd books for the year, and am in danger of not meeting my plan of two a week this year. So on and so forth.
Uni
Med is…I don’t know really. I’m enjoying being back in, but I wouldn’t actually be remotely surprised if I failed this year, because I’m just….blergh. I don’t know. Avoidant of patients? Geriatrics was an easy pass; musculo I handed in an incomplete (radically) 30% assessment and I’m not sure if I passed or not, because it’s not listed as a pass/fail thing, but faculty seems to think it is (because they’re morons who don’t check what they put on assessment sheets)(I got ~55% for the unit without the 30% thing because that is actually how retarded the unit is); surgery was more interesting than I thought it would be, but I still almost failed because the consultant didn’t think they’d seen me around much (the reason for this was that I was avoiding them, primarily because it’s on their instructions that I raped someone (this claim, is, of course, relatively hyperbolic, but performing a non-consensual vaginal exam on an unconscious patient is definitely one of those fringe cases)); psych is good, but the wards are pretty bland, to be honest, and the consultant seems to have decided he’s not seeing me much, and is complaining to the interns (I find this ironic, because when I went and introduced myself to him last week (the first week on the wards) he was very "are you the only one? Where is the other one? I haven't seen them." The tables, how they have turned); I’m technically failing pharm, path and ID, but this is largely because I keep forgetting to do online assessments so my average gets dragged down by a string of zeroes (the mid-sems were all floating around 45-55%, despite not going to any lectures or reading any lecture notes, which I am satisfied with, because hey, there is no mark below an almost pass, and they should all have been dismal if there was a grand universal sense of justice); I still need to chase up what’s happening with the research project I’ve already finished.
Conclusion: I may pass, but I probably shouldn’t.
I don’t know. Things just aren’t capturing my interest with med. I think it’s to do with how retarded so much of the rhetoric around it is. Professionalism, as taught, is essentially crap (this article is a pretty good summary of why). It may not be immediately evident, but even the language of things like disability activism is also really screwed: it’s basically set up so that doctors (or not-doctor health professionals) can provide the same services as their colleagues, but get a greater profit out of it (mine is called ‘professionalism’, yours is called ‘client focused service provision’; mine is called ‘patient care’; yours is called ‘a holistic approach to client wellbeing.’). It’s really dodgy. (It's not actually *all* about that, but enough of it is to make the rest highly suspect).
Grand summary: a med student who is having doubts about their future. SHOCK HORROR
Alternative summary: Dr Tom is, once more, in danger of passing despite his best efforts to the contrary.
In an additional note, I just sent off an e-mail asking about whether I’d meet the requirements for a Masters in Ethics at ANU. If they say yes, I may be on track for more degree madness. Hooray!
Other
I had some rants that I was planning on writing, but then I forgot what they were and now I don’t know why I put this section in. So instead, I’ll tell anyone who doesn’t know that the Bloggess is one of the greatest (worst) people ever.