I've come to the end of my second week on a placement in anesthetics and intensive care. It's been really exciting for me so far, specially because I've just finished a six-month-long research project which involved very little clinical medicine, and it's refreshing to come back to it, albeit at the expense of my short summer break!


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I've started working out at the gym. It's been two weeks now and it looks like I can fit four sessions a week into my timetable quite comfortably - of course, this is before Desi Soc work reaches its peak, and before all the non-medics/dentists start pouring back into Newcastle after their extensive summer breaks ( Read more... )

I started third year last Tuesday. Can't believe I'm already in third year.. seems like only a few days ago that I first came to Newcastle, a confused 19-year-old. I get the feeling from my experience so far that it gets better with each passing year ( Read more... )

My two best friends, Abhishek and Yousuf came to stay over on Tuesday night. We fell asleep that night, after watching videos of autopsies and explanations of the tenth dimension [we're a studious lot ( Read more... )

I had a busy morning today - I was in lectures or seminars all the way from 09:00 'til lunchtime [13:00]. When I came back home, there was mail waiting for me. I didn't notice it immediately.. in fact I didn't even know it was for me until Laura passed it to me and said, "This must be for you.. it's got Arabic on it ( Read more... )

One of the conditions of the offer that Newcastle University made to me is that I get vaccinated against or show proof of non-infectivity of Hepatitis B and also get vaccinated against a whole bunch of diseases, most of which I'm either immune to [e.g. chicken pox] or I've been vaccinated against [e.g. polio], except tetanusSo off we went to ( Read more... )

So ok, I was pretty much learning to live with the fact that people here are dead against Israel and Jewish people in general.. but this article right here is just maddening. The worst part of the article was that one of the hospital workers said,

"We are not sure these items are healthy, safe, and usable by physicians and patients. Maybe they ( Read more... )

105 hours of volunteer work! Woo hoo baby! Only they call it 'job training' and not 'volunteer work ( Read more... )

Today was no different at work. Sorting, arranging, making appointment, stapling, making new files etc.

Well there was something new.. Dr Kishan told me to make a report. At first he just wanted a flowchart of how the insurance department works. But then a little voice inside him told him to ask me to also write about the Marketing department. And ( Read more... )

Today was my first day at "work" at Zulekha Hospital. I left home with my dad, around 0800. Stayed at his office for a couple of hours, putting money in the cashier machine and stuffing the cash memos in their places ( Read more... )