Bute Medical School

Isn't it lovely, everyday I walk past the sign into the medical school and thank my lucky stars and Perth College I got in because I love it so much. The Bute has been the place where my dreams became a reality.

We are incidently, the class of 2010, the LAST class to fully complete their years in Saint Andrews in the Bute. The year below me will have their 3rd year in the new medical school on the North Haugh which will be named after Dr BC Sekhar whose son donated 8 million towards the building of the new medical school. And the year below them (this years intake) will have just 1 year in the lovely Bute.

So gone is my beloved Bute in 2010 but so will I be too!! :-(

Stethoscopes and Getting Older

I just love stethoscopes, they are my favourite doctory thing ever!! I have a pink one and am getting a new shiny leopard print one for my depressing 31st birthday in June!! It will be the highlight of an otherwise dismal day. I never wanted to make it this far and be IN MY 30s!! I don't feel old enough but it would seem that I am. Oh well. It is something I will come to terms with gradually I feel and probably only really accept it as I am about to enter my next generation which for now I simply cannot even mention.............. But back to a cheery prospect stethoscopes.......ahhh I love them and they are so useful too.

Medical Jargon

Since becoming a medical student almost 2 years ago I have come across many wonderful and wacky words in the world of medicine. Some you would almost believe are not true, take boryborygmus.............is that a word? Does it have a meaning? I would have probably said no 2 years ago but not now............oh no!!!  Or how about choledocholithiasis or tripotassium dicitrobismuthate (actually that is a drug so a bit of cheating there but you get my meaning)....I can't pronounce some of them and when I do it almost always is the case that someone else says it differently from me.

Upon arrival in Medical school, the lecturers do prewarn you with the way of it, they start off telling you that you will learn a completely new language. It WILL seem confusing at first but in time you get used to it.

I didn't really beleive this, until recently. The realisation came over me quite suddenly when for about 2 days running every conversation I had revolved around someone's ailments and I had to keep stopping when faced with a blank look and explaining what I had previously explained, in simpler terms..............or maybe not simpler terms but terms not in latin or filled with anatomical technicalities.

This tells me 2 things 1) I have come a long way in Medical School 2) To stop telling people I am a medical student, from now on I study biology and maybe I will get through the checkout in Asda quicker......

:-) I will write some more interesting and  really intellectual stuff soon, I am so sure of it!!!