"A" is for anatomy. How can I forget the spine chilling moment when I was given the opportunity to find all the tiny branches of the Ulnar nerve? It still pains when I tickle my 'funny bone'.
"B" is for bike. Don't know, if ever in life, the speedometer will touch that high speed or we'll spend hours on 'Activas' and 'Plusars' just roaming around in the streets for nothing.
"C" is for coffee. My consumption of this beverage has rocketed in the previous two & half years. I am convinced my serum caffeine levels are well above the normal reference range.
"D" is for doxycycline. That's the favorite drug name of my colleague. We are even thinking of gifting her a little pup & naming it 'Doxy'.
"E" is for ECG. Still blaming my long-left physics that I can't understand how the cardiologists decipher a whole lot of arrhythmias & MIs from this strip of paper, which is no more than a scribble by a toddler for me.
"F" is for fanta-fanti aur setting, the hottest topic of SNMC.
"G" is for Goat. I always feel like one, the day before my exams, ready to be sl-slau-slaughtered!
"H" is for histories. I remember being told in the first week of my ward-posting that a detailed history is the key to a successful diagnosis. A colleague of mine took it a bit too far. He impeccably presented the history of a patient with emphysema together with the names of the patient's eight children and their history of dog bites!
"I" is for insults. We all know of at least one consultant in each department that looks on medical students as lesser forms of life; and who can forget the horrifying experience in joint classes of postings where your juniours know it all and the professor expects you to answer.
"J" is for the jukebox. The innumerable songs we listen on full volume, dance to them 'on the roof, in the rain', on the bikes.
"K" is for ******. You know what I mean! (Editors, are we allowed to put in slang here? After all, we use it in every second sentence!)
"L" is for library. I have spent an unhealthy amount of time daydreaming in this establishment and when I was not there, cursing the people who were not-so-much daydreaming there. PS : Will everyone please turn off their mobile phones.
"M" is for Medicine & Harrison. I am always advised by my seniors to read through half of it in my 6th semester. Do you seriously feel I can ever do that even in the entire period of my under-graduation?
"N" is for Nicotine. I know I hate it, but a large number of medicos are addicted. God help them!
"O" is for OHT. Argh! The Over Head Transmission of the lectures is quite common in the morning lectures and those in the noon and in the posting lectures. Wait a minute, are there any more of them?
"P" is for Picture-Hall, associated with a whole lot of good and bad experiences.
"Q" is for Questions that the teachers fire on us during classes and examinations. Wish I knew what to do with them.
"R" is for Revision. We, medicos are supposed to do it again & again, isn't it?
"S" is for stethoscopes. The day you buy your own stethoscope is a milestone in any medical student's career. But I still can't figure out why I was never able to use it? I mean, c'mon, have you ever 'appreciated' a murmur?
"T" is for treat. Treat for a new bike, treat for topping the class, treat for your birthday, your mom's birthday or your second cousin's anniversary or for the new dog your neighbour just got ..... Do you seriously require a reason for each treat?
"U" is for ultrasound. Let's be honest, doesn't it all look the same to you?
"V" is for Viva. No comment! It hurts!
"W" is for ward-postings. I still feel lost there!
"X" is for X-ray, Opaque is bones, no! Transparent is bones, no! Opaque is bones ...... Still can't figure out. Somebody please help me!
"Y" is for the colour "Yellow" - the most horrifying colour. Yellow coloured nerves in anatomy, yellow precipitate in biochemistry, yellow coloured book-Guyton in physiology, yellow coloured pages of KDT in pharmacology, yellow fever in microbiology, yellow atrophy of liver in pathology...... you surely don't want more, do you?
"Z" is for zzzzzzzzzz - sleep is some-thing I have always taken for granted. I obtain a brief glimpse of the effects of sleep deprivation almost everyday as I battle to stay awake in the early hours of the lectures.
"B" is for bike. Don't know, if ever in life, the speedometer will touch that high speed or we'll spend hours on 'Activas' and 'Plusars' just roaming around in the streets for nothing.
"C" is for coffee. My consumption of this beverage has rocketed in the previous two & half years. I am convinced my serum caffeine levels are well above the normal reference range.
"D" is for doxycycline. That's the favorite drug name of my colleague. We are even thinking of gifting her a little pup & naming it 'Doxy'.
"E" is for ECG. Still blaming my long-left physics that I can't understand how the cardiologists decipher a whole lot of arrhythmias & MIs from this strip of paper, which is no more than a scribble by a toddler for me.
"F" is for fanta-fanti aur setting, the hottest topic of SNMC.
"G" is for Goat. I always feel like one, the day before my exams, ready to be sl-slau-slaughtered!
"H" is for histories. I remember being told in the first week of my ward-posting that a detailed history is the key to a successful diagnosis. A colleague of mine took it a bit too far. He impeccably presented the history of a patient with emphysema together with the names of the patient's eight children and their history of dog bites!
"I" is for insults. We all know of at least one consultant in each department that looks on medical students as lesser forms of life; and who can forget the horrifying experience in joint classes of postings where your juniours know it all and the professor expects you to answer.
"J" is for the jukebox. The innumerable songs we listen on full volume, dance to them 'on the roof, in the rain', on the bikes.
"K" is for ******. You know what I mean! (Editors, are we allowed to put in slang here? After all, we use it in every second sentence!)
"L" is for library. I have spent an unhealthy amount of time daydreaming in this establishment and when I was not there, cursing the people who were not-so-much daydreaming there. PS : Will everyone please turn off their mobile phones.
"M" is for Medicine & Harrison. I am always advised by my seniors to read through half of it in my 6th semester. Do you seriously feel I can ever do that even in the entire period of my under-graduation?
"N" is for Nicotine. I know I hate it, but a large number of medicos are addicted. God help them!
"O" is for OHT. Argh! The Over Head Transmission of the lectures is quite common in the morning lectures and those in the noon and in the posting lectures. Wait a minute, are there any more of them?
"P" is for Picture-Hall, associated with a whole lot of good and bad experiences.
"Q" is for Questions that the teachers fire on us during classes and examinations. Wish I knew what to do with them.
"R" is for Revision. We, medicos are supposed to do it again & again, isn't it?
"S" is for stethoscopes. The day you buy your own stethoscope is a milestone in any medical student's career. But I still can't figure out why I was never able to use it? I mean, c'mon, have you ever 'appreciated' a murmur?
"T" is for treat. Treat for a new bike, treat for topping the class, treat for your birthday, your mom's birthday or your second cousin's anniversary or for the new dog your neighbour just got ..... Do you seriously require a reason for each treat?
"U" is for ultrasound. Let's be honest, doesn't it all look the same to you?
"V" is for Viva. No comment! It hurts!
"W" is for ward-postings. I still feel lost there!
"X" is for X-ray, Opaque is bones, no! Transparent is bones, no! Opaque is bones ...... Still can't figure out. Somebody please help me!
"Y" is for the colour "Yellow" - the most horrifying colour. Yellow coloured nerves in anatomy, yellow precipitate in biochemistry, yellow coloured book-Guyton in physiology, yellow coloured pages of KDT in pharmacology, yellow fever in microbiology, yellow atrophy of liver in pathology...... you surely don't want more, do you?
"Z" is for zzzzzzzzzz - sleep is some-thing I have always taken for granted. I obtain a brief glimpse of the effects of sleep deprivation almost everyday as I battle to stay awake in the early hours of the lectures.
Ritu Ramdeo
Batch - 2004
No comments:
Post a Comment