* In a little more than a month's time, I'll officially be an MS 4. Looking back at it now its amazing how far I've come since the beginning of this academic year. This is really it because all of fourth year is just pretty much applying for residency and showing them what a good resident you can be.
* speaking of fourth year, in three months time, the applications for residency opens up, and from then on its gonna be a nerve wrecking process till March when you find out if you have a job or not. After you put in your applications, u sit around and wait for interview offers, then off you go on the interview trail and then in March, you find out if you matched. The whole process ends in "The match". I'll most likely blog about it in details later
* I promise I'll put up a post summarizing my experiences for the whole year. the good, the bad, the funny parts of pediatrics, psychiatry, surgery, ob/gyn, family and internal medicine. I might have to break it into parts.
*there might be a man....dont want to blog about it :D
* Naija in this World cup ehn? anyways, I guess its time to claim my argentinian heritage! you didnt know? my long weave-like hair should have clued you in!
*Nominations for Category B are up and running! hope you've nominated me for the next big anonymous paparazzi hottest friendliest celebrity blogger award? This is calling all my readers, followers, lurkers, subscribers, effryting effryting to go here ---> Category B nominations and nominate me for all 30 categories - ok, I'll take 29, :)
* After a tough struggle, The LA Lakers are the 2010 NBA champions! let's pop something!!!!!! after nearly giving me high blood pressure, I'm glad we won!
* I got another email from yinka (hope you're blulshing multicolor now? lol)
On Sunday, I was sitting in church, playing with my phone as usual (father forgive me!) when I received an email from an unknown person. At first I thought it was one of my recent toasters (lol!) but the last name was different. I read the email and proceeded to tweet the email in its entirety! I was beaming like I just won a million dollars.
You see, when I blog, I dont do it for anybody, I dont expect commendations. quite frankly, I mostly blog when I'm stressed out with so many exams (which was kinda why I blogged more in the first two years of medical school). This whole blog started out as a form of stress relief (like I've said lots of time) now sounding like a broken record, I signed up on blogger.com in the middle of my orientation for med school when someone said "you will not have a life, people in your life will not understand why you cant hang out with them again..." And so, I opened this blog to "get away from med school". If I couldnt go out to hang with friends, I hung out with my "computer friends" (like solomonsydelle likes to call it). I laughed with you guys, cried with you guys, sometimes I felt closer to my blog friends than my real life friends.
Anyways, here's the email I received.
Bunmi, I think am not wrong addressing you as such; your blog nick is actually ripe with suggestions of your firstname !
I am Olayinka and I have spent the last coupla hours reading every piece on www.bumight.com .I may not be able to define why you write yet but I must say I had a beautiful time and not one of the pieces failed to tickle my fancy...just how interesting you are !
Your writtings have kept me company this wonderful sunday and I wanted you to know.
Hope the roads rise to meet you in the coming week Bumight M.....(in a coupla months I will add the D)
Olayinka
I, with my big mouth went and tweeted: " I am humbled and tickled beyond words. This is so much more than any blog award!", to which @goodnaijagirl replied " does this mean if you win a blog award, we can give it to the person who makes second place?"
So i think I jinxed myself, Leggy, Ego du Jour and Myne Whitman, that was the only reason you guys won in my categories! that's my story and I'm sticking to it For real though, congrats guys. even though I didnt win, I wont say im not disappointed, but like I said on d award site, I shall go and comfort myself in baroka's arms! :D
That's my own blog award in that email up there, and so I'm the happiest blogger ever!
Health care is increasingly becoming more of a team work, than a personal sport. Its not all about the doctor anymore, the physical therapist, social worker, nurses and even medical students are all vital parts of this team. Everybody has their own parts to play, the doctor ultimately makes decision about patient care but medical students have been known to take stellar histories and discover things about patients that the doctor or resident missed. Nurses are arguably the ones that spend the most time with the patients, and so could get to know the patient on a level that other team members cant.
However, one thing that I have noticed about nurses from my one year on rotations is that nurses notoriously don’t get along with medical students. Its like the Spartans and the xxx, Ife and Modakeke, Ruggedman and …
On my very first rotation, there was this nurse in the ED, we asked her for the key to the bathroom, and she gave my colleague a bunch of keys and highlighted one. We tried the key several times until I suggested we try others and after a few tries, we came up on the real key. The nurse was in a corner giggling to herself.
The nastiest nurses I’ve come across have been Ob nurses (nurses on Labor and Delivery) they always felt some sort of allegiance to their patients and almost made it their duty to keep the medical students away from the patients. I’m like “how am I supposed to learn if you wont let me interact with the patients!” These are the months where I’m supposed to learn stuff and when I come back as an intern, I would actually have an idea of what I’m doing.
Yeah, the nicest nurses I’ve encountered are the nurses on the medicine floors. They make you feel like part of the team. Some of them even refer to us as “doctor bumight” (yeah, such things are good for our egos J ) They would tell you everything about your patients such that it makes you look good on rounds. There have been cases like this
Medical student: “ excuse me, are u the nurse for Ms Shokolokobangoshe?’
Nurse; “yeah’
MS; “do you know if there was anything that happened with her overnight?”
Nurse: “nothing happened”
Then MS goes on rounds and reports that “in the past 24 hours, there were no acute events” only for the attending physician who was at home overnight to interject that “Nurse X told me that Ms Shokologobangoshe had a fever overnight, then her blood pressure tanked, and she was given IV fluids, and then she coded, so they had to run a code on her for 15 minutes before she was resuscitated”.
And MS is left looking like a fool! Not cool.
PS: I’m not anti-nurses o! I suspect that a good chunk of my readers (and fellow bloggers) are nurses. My mom is a nurse!
I'm a real likeable, down to earth person. I enjoy a good conversation, and the process of getting to know a person. I love writing if it doesn't have to do with school, personal statements, generally graded work.
I think about the most random stuff and I'm writing it because I really believe that in the year 5000 or so, there will be a course called "Historical Writings on the Internet 101" offered in schools and my writings would be one of those!
