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High School GCSE Science

I like to think of myself as a tolerant person. However, armchair science is something I have very little patience for. This is a situation Ive found myself to be in more and more, Im up against...

Aug 12, 2011 Like

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Dr. Science or Dr. Fluff

Doctors have got to be good at science and do all the fluffy stuff. I wonder what is easier. Take a naturally empathic person and try to teach them science. Or take a person with natural aptitude...

Jan 23, 2010 Like

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Ever see those "You know you're a xx when..." and follows a list of funny things which, much of the time for me, happen to be true. In the case of the medical student my particular favourite is:"It...

Dec 11, 2009 Like

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Nightmare!

I have never had exam related nightmares before!!Now I see cardiology questions (I haven't revised this topic yet) and the invigilator sees me struggling and says... Why didn't you revise the...

Dec 10, 2009 Like

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Hoop Jumping!

Well hello hello!It is exam season again and what better time to procrastinate and revive my old medical blog? Apart from the fact I had forgotten all my passwords and had to answer secret...

Dec 9, 2009 Like

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Flagging?

In line with my admiration for Susie Law School's ethos I'm telling myselfI love studying!I love exams!Knowing stuff is cool!I do have pink tags and highlighters and all manner of funky stationary....

Feb 2, 2009 Like

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Colour Clash

ooh pink and orange really clash! i'll have to change that on the blogs I am following... maybe.and in the dissertation I worked my socks off on made sense of 40 journal articles and goodness knows...

Jan 25, 2009 Like

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I'm revising!

Awww... Crash Course you have saved me once again (after spending hours trying to make sense of topics in more respectable texts... ) well, hey at least its not wikipedia!Not like one could just...

Dec 27, 2008 Like

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Arrogant Brunette

I knew I was right! I come home and check the journals and I am indeed right.I was asked a question in a graded viva. I answered. He smiled gently... silly girl what does she know and corrected me....

Dec 9, 2008 Like

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hypocrisy...

Health is important and it should be promoted by health professionals... but disqualifying someone for political leadership because of lifestyle choices seems an infringement too far on civil...

Dec 1, 2008 Like

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CV building

Do you, fellow bloggers, ever worry about someone stealing an idea, expanding it, making it ultimately better, distancing it just enough to be different to yours, publishing it & getting the...

Oct 31, 2008 Like

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Coursework Vs. Exams

Decision: I am an exam girl over coursework.... although I have stretched myself to the maximum doing the last bit of coursework (hence my absence) & really do hope the grade reflects the...

Oct 20, 2008 Like

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Secret Status Jargon Decoder

oh dear oh dear oh dear.I went to see a nurse today who told me the glands in my neck were up. (I have been ill recently)."Glands?!" I said, "aren't they lymph nodes?""You have glands all over your...

Aug 13, 2008 Like

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Dangerous Depletion of phosphorous

I've joined a dieting community and started another blog just ranting about my constant struggle to lose a few.. or 20lbs to get the to die for bikini body (nothing to do with health I'm sorry to...

Aug 1, 2008 Like

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Medical Histories' impact on Medical Students

Hello Blog World! Am out of the exam zone, the compulsory celebratory excesses & subsequent recoveries!Couple of topics I have been ruminating on lately. I have a friend who would be an excellent...

Jun 7, 2008 Like

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Desert Island Books

The best book I have ever read in my life is a textbook. (Yes, really!)"How to think straight about psychology" by Keith E. Stanovich, it could easily be called "How to think straight about...

Apr 22, 2008 Like

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Subject Matter

I love anatomy! Yet I hate physiology, persevering with it and waiting for that moment of understanding when it will all make perfect sense... ;D

Apr 21, 2008 Like

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Medical Education

Learning the good old fashioned way! I think I am suited to a more traditional approach to learning. Not making any claims about PBL, I've never done any at my med school.Just learning systems.. I...

Apr 17, 2008 Like

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Politics

There are plenty of medically qualified MPs out there.. so why not have one of them as health minister? Is it naive of me to think they might have more insight?Of course if they have to follow the...

Apr 9, 2008 Like

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Another one on dieting...

"The vegetarian lo-carb diet cookbook'. I'm not a fan of low carb diets, but finding recipes that are both vegetarian & low calorie/fat (& that I also like the taste of, aren't too time consuming...

Apr 9, 2008 Like

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A doctor I don't want to emulate...

A lecturer I had recently was very unforgiving about patients he has that suffer from obesity. "We don't know why that message doesn't get through" (in reference to advising patients to lose...

Apr 8, 2008 Like

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Is Sympathy Necessary for Trivial Health Problems?

A friend of mine, a student paramedic "Mindy" was called out recently to see a girl that had called an ambulance for a very trivial health problem. Now for the problem itself I probably would not...

Mar 31, 2008 Like

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Dream Time

Every night lately I have a dream where I have succumbed to some condition. Last night for example, I dreamed I had an M.I. (heart attack) during lectures. (I did have some chest pains earlier in...

Mar 12, 2008 Like

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Hospital Dramas...

After an OSCE where I was slightly flummoxed as to the problem, I recalled an episode of a non-hospital tv programme that just happened to have a doctor in it. I repeated the somewhat unorthodox...

Mar 2, 2008 Like

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Class War at Medical School!

Getting students from poorer backgrounds into medical school is a laudable goal and if they have the ability and deemed to have the 'right qualities' worthy of becoming a future doctor, I do...

Feb 29, 2008 Like

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Idols

Sir John Mortimer starts every day with a glass of champagne. It doesn't seem like a wholly bad idea...

Feb 24, 2008 Like

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Just a Little Dig...

This week I have been subject to a series of seemingly pointless lectures given by people who tried to win us over and justify their positions. I am all for interdisciplinary team work among fellow...

Feb 24, 2008 Like

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Multi Disciplinary Team Working

Not everyone wants to become a doctor. Some intelligent people (arguably more intelligent than us) weigh up the pros and the cons of various healthcare jobs. For them, nursing or social work or...

Feb 17, 2008 Like

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Evidence Based Medicine

I can't believe how much negativity otherwise intelligent medical students have about this concept... it seems totally logical to me that of course we should test treatments to see if they are...

Feb 13, 2008 Like

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Rucksac Day

Tommorrow I am out for 12 hours. This is, by my own volition. Library for 9 o clock, lectures in the afternoon and a society meeting in the evening, finishing at 9pm.This sort of hectic busy life...

Feb 11, 2008 Like

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Medically Brunette

High School GCSE Science

Dr. Science or Dr. Fluff

Pass!

Nightmare!

Hoop Jumping!

Flagging?

Colour Clash

I'm revising!

Arrogant Brunette

hypocrisy...

CV building

Coursework Vs. Exams

Secret Status Jargon Decoder

Dangerous Depletion of phosphorous

Medical Histories' impact on Medical Students

Desert Island Books

Subject Matter

Medical Education

Politics

Another one on dieting...

A doctor I don't want to emulate...

Is Sympathy Necessary for Trivial Health Problems?

Dream Time

Hospital Dramas...

Class War at Medical School!

Idols

Just a Little Dig...

Multi Disciplinary Team Working

Evidence Based Medicine

Rucksac Day

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