9:00am: Made it to the hospital just in time for ward rounds just in time and was introduced to the registrar who I would be shadowing for the next few days.
9:00am-12:00pm: Followed the registrar round the many bays in the hospital whilst trying to forget that my feet were slowly dying. However, the rounds were absolutely amazing, and watching the doctor perform all of the examinations was fantastic. The first patient did not speak any English and thus a translator was used in order to understand what was wrong. However, not being able to understand exactly what the patient meant made it much harder for the doctor to try and diagnose them. Another extremely interesting case was one that is known as rare in the doctoring world. This is a cardiac condition known as Takotsubo which is generally caused by stress and emotion.
12:00pm-14:30pm: Very, very long lunch break resting my feet!
14:30pm-16:45pm: From these times I watched over some MRI scans which proved to be very fascinating and really made me realise how in-depth the images they get, and how useful imaging is in modern day medicine. This was further emphasised when I watched a CT scan which really made me realise that these scans can point out almost every abnormality in the human body.
However I shall wait for what tomorrow holds for me but I am not looking forward to the early 5:00 am wake up!!!! Have an awesome frickin' day dudes!!
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