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OMG..

Why am I so lazy??
I really should be updating this blog more often.
Anyway hrmm...let me think what's new..
Well I'm currently in Forres doing my GP attachment for 7 weeks.

As you guess from the name Forres, the town seems to be in the middle of a forest. It's got trees everywhere, and most people work in the forestry industry.
By the way, it's autumn and the place is gorgeous, cause the trees are all changing colours, and it's all just multi-coloured. To be frank though, it's probably not as nice now, cause all the trees have gone bald, and most of the leaves have been shed, but about 1-2 weeks ago, the place was just gorgeous, with trees filled with beautiful yellow, brown gold leaves.

If you were wondering where the heck is Forres, well it's approximately 1 hour and 43 minutes train ride away from Aberdeen. Twice, I took the freaking bus, and it took more than 3 hours. Bleurghhhh..I hate taking the bus. I only take it sometimes cause it's much cheaper than the train. shit, need to be less kiam siap.

I am really enjoying GP here.
I used to absolutely hate GP work, especially as I didn't have a good experience with my previous GP attachments, and I thought it absolutely horrid and boring, but this attachment has absolutely changed my outlook on GP work.
Everybody here is absolutely lovely and nice.
My Gp- Dr Thomson is absolutely brilliant. I'm so sooo glad that I put him as my first choice in the GP choice form, and thank God they gave me my first choice too =)

And the other GP Dr Sneddon absolutely cracks me up. He tells the best best stories ever. I was listening to him tell me stories about this doctor who was supposed to be working, but escaped away to play golf, and was struck by lightning and ended having quite severe burns. Absolutely hilarious! Oh did I mention that he goes hunting and fishing for salmon. He hunts deers, pheasants etc. Wow, I find it so absolutely fascinating, hunting seems so medieval and I didn't even know that people still did that, I used to think only English aristocracy practiced such sports. It's like as if he stepped out of a story book or something.

By the way, I was also fascinated by how the surgeon in Wick-Mr Fisher is able to fly a plane, sail a boat and chops wood for his house. Oh oh, did I tell you that Mr Fisher is tall and charming to boot. His wife is very beautiful, tall and slim with the most gorgeous green eyes, and whom I had to perform venepuncture on, in more lay man terms- take a blood sample from her. But anyway I digress.

I'm so spell-bound and impressed by everybody. Seriously I only read about people who do such things in story books. Haha, I guess life here is really different compared to my old life living in a big city with all its infrastructure and buildings and fast-paced life and pollutions.

Oh yeah, I would also like to add how I feel like such an idiot!!
Dr Sneddon was telling me about how he won so many prizes as a medical student, and that he and Dr Thomson were both distinction students in medical school. And the rest of the doctors in the practice have passed various other post graduate exams. And and Dr Thomson has like two degrees, I can't remember what degree he did before doing medicine. And Dr Sneddon was showing me his books and the stuff he had to memorise as a medical student, and he was telling me about how hard he studied as a medical student. Oh by the way, I also want to add that Sueyi got 99 again for her USMLE Step 2 exam, so damn geng!! Congrats again!!!
Why am I surrounded by so many smart smart people!??
To be fair, all these people worked really hard, so I think they totally deserve all their successes.
As the title of this post suggest, yes I do have to admit that I have been lazy of late, especially since 5th year begun because we don't have major exams this year. Our major exam was in 4th year. And basically 5th year is just about shadowing the houseman in hospital, and helping them do their work which is quite no-brainer. Cause it's just taking history, doing examination, taking bloods. In other words, almost like a glorified clerk :P
So in comparison I am definitely enjoying GP work more as I get to see more diverse cases and use my brains to figure out things cause I get asked a lot more questions. Although I do feel that I was being a bit sneaky during my surgical attachment, as I used to run away from the surgical ward to attend all the different clinics going on downstairs. But to be fair to me, there wasn't a lot going on in the surgical ward in Wick and it was extremely quiet at times, and I was bored witless sitting around doing nothing!!

Ok, that's enough for today, shall continue again later on as I have to go off for a shower now.