2 things i don't do much nowadays.. think... and about medicine...
since i became a robot that functions to pick up the phone and poke people with needles..
i thought it'd be nice if MOs and specialists didn't just give orders but worked together with housemen to carry out the orders... after all medicine is handed down not just by books and knowledge, but also by apprenticeship and "showing"
i thought that when i become an MO or if i become a specialist and IF i do work in a tertiary hospital... i'd MAYBE like to continue taking bloods, doing procedures, referring cases, doing work TOGETHER with HOs to show them how to do things, learn from each other... i just thought it'd be really cool if i had an MO or specialist who did things like that... i asked myself what really is the practice of medicine about? is it in.. cutting up people, or their hands or legs, or writing on pieces of papers asking people to do this and to do that.. i don't think i just want to do that for the rest of my life... i think, the practice of medicine is in talking to people, finding out what's wrong with them (which physicians do well) and treating them (which surgeons do well).. which i think, also involves the many small little procedures that are also part of the diagnosing and treating process... like blood taking, running the bloods, referring the cases, putting in the catheters and other stuff... (which housemen do, sometimes well and sometimes not so well)
but i suppose this runs true probably in a tertiary hospital.. an environment and a system which i believe isn't really all that great to deliver health care in quality, but only in quantity... i suppose we work with what we can... but i also guess that's why i probably won't want to work in a tertiary hospital for the rest of my life...
and why my ideal dream of practicing medicine is to be a GP... maybe doing house-calls, doing locum prn... and spending most of my time... lepak-ing and getting to know people...
but.. like i said in the beginning..
i haven't been thinking much.. so, this may not make much sense...
and.. i don't do much medicine... which doubles the likelihood of this not making any sense...