I feel like I am a hamster.

My life just feels far too busy at the moment.

Being busy is usually a good thing, but sometimes it is possible to get too busy.

At the moment I have

-Research (I am trying to get some research experience to but on my CV

-Arranging an event

-Applying for a scholarship, (I had to write a personal statement, now I have to do a presentation)


It may not sound like much, but each of those things has lots of little bits that I need to deal with each day. The more I do, the more little tasks, I end up needing to complete.





I know half the stuff on the list is voluntary, but I need to get a job when I graduate.In order to do this I need things I can put on my CV.

In a way medical students are lucky, graduating practically guarantees a job,(even if its being something really random, at Middle of nowhere Hospital)

Everyone that graduates medical school becomes a doctor, but I want to be the best I possibly can.

Women in surgery Conference

I am back again....

I am a woman, and I guess I want to be a surgeon.

Leeds university is hosting a women in surgery conference, and I am considering going.

Check out its facebook page here:https://www.facebook.com/events/1412482525711751/?ref=ts&fref=ts



Pros
Its free
Poster competion-Although they are no longer worth any MTAS points, they are handy to have on your CV
Suturing- always fun to practise suturing
Surgeons- I can talk to them and ask them if I can shaddow them, they usualy agree.


Cons
Its less than 1 month away, so I may not have time to create a poster
Its on a Saturday-uni stuff on a sat, erm nah.

The coolest thing is 6th form students and applicants seem to be invited, I know if I was applying for medical school saying " I went to a medical conference" would look really good.

A day in the life of Marley

Marley likes to exercise, despite being less than skin and bone

Marley was kind enough to lend me his upper arm , so I can learn muscle atatchments

Marley having a midnight snack after a hard days work

Ethics-What happens when you and a patient speak the same language

I am back.Medschool sucks, I just have too much work to do, and I can never get ontop of it.

So..as you may know its medschool interview time, and medschools love making you discuss ethics during interviews. (I know my medschool like using scenarios to test ethical knowledge). So...I decided to post one up for discussion.

The first situation is...
"As a medical student you are shadowing a doctor who only speaks English.A mother and daughter have come for a consultation,but the mother does not speak English, so the daughter is acting as the translator. You are able to speak the same language as the mother and daughter(lets say french)

The doctor has told the daughter to tell her mother, that "the treatment is no longer working, and that there is nothing more the doctors can do,but there are drugs that can make her more comfortable"

Because you speak the same language you know the daughter told her mother  "the doctor said that everything is going well, but the doctor wants to try stronger medicines, that will make you get ill, but then you will get better"

What would you do next? Why would you do this?

Noor from Nonie32's blog responded with...

Even as a pre medical school (still doing my A Levels), I see that the most essential characteristics a doctor must obtain is integrity. And when, in this situation, where I am a medical student foreshadowing my doctor, we see a loss of integrity between the information conveyed by the doctor and the information given to the patient by her daughter. As a medical student (in the situation), I should report the condition to my doctor privately, explaining to him that I understand the language spoken by the mother and her daughter very well, and that the daughter misinterpreted the message to her mother explaining to her that she will do fine -which is the opposite of what the doctor said- and that the meds given to her will make her feel ill nonetheless. There is a disturbance within the doctor-patient bond with misinterpreted data. The doctor may then take actions with the patient’s daughter explaining to her the situation and asks her reasons and whether or not they are appropriate reasons with good motives. Even though I think that the patient was given false hope I, as a medical student, should take no actions without the knowledge of the doctor as I am a student and not yet an official doctor.


I would probably react in a similar way.
I think the main difficulty I would have is figuring out how to tell the doctor what happened. As a medical student this situation would make me feel very uncomfortable, and I would want to stop the daughter telling her mother more lies as soon as possible.

I also think it might look really suspicious, if I asked the doctor to step out of the room for a moment.As a doctor you can only try to get things 100% perfect, and in this situation the patients feeling uncomfortable is a small compromise.

So....Please visit Noor's blog its really interesting.

And comment below if you would do anything differently, or if there is anything we missed.