So I caved. I got Twitter. It's just so that I can have the name I want, because everyone has twitter now. It's just like on facebook, where they've added usernames. So it's www.twitter.com/caroldollyxx It's not a substitute for facebook or msn or this blog; microblogging isn't really hot for me. But you know, it's nice to communicate with people in a different way sometimes. You never know, I might get into it.
Just finished at hospital.. I didn't mean it when I said I hated driving to them both. It's just that cars come up behind you and intimidate you, and force you to drive faster than you wanted to, and angry drivers who overtake on bends :S I can understand how learners feel... I mean, I didn't really get how everything came together until it was almost my test. I guess it seemed daunting at the time, kinda difficult for me to imagine remembering but it becomes second nature, just like riding a bike. Although P swears you can forget how to ride a bike.
It's been very interesting to say the least. Anaesthesia was fun because I got to help put people to sleep and practice skills and things, and see all sorts of different surgeries. But Obs and Gynae is more clinical. The consultant I was with specialises in urogynaecology, so I saw lots of prolapses and incontience and hysterectomies.. I got to hold lots of instruments in theatre, and be put as "assistant surgeon".
I didn't get to "conduct deliveries", which is something you do in 5th year of medicine. But I got to watch loads of sections and deliveries, I got to clerk patients in clinic, successfully.
I got two books out of the library to help with my learning, because I feel that I'm not being taught as much on this placement as I was last time, because it's busier. But it has been really good. Has been useful :)
I've been watching loads of old films that I haven't seen in ages. The Spiderman trilogy, the first of which was really good: I loved the Green Goblin. The second was also quite good, I liked the storyline, but the third one was just... not very good. Too many storylines involved, kinda predictable and also the New Goblin was a bit much. Eddie Brock was good though.
I watched Love Actually.. it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling, although I don't think it's the kind of thing non British people would go for, as its cast is nearly entirely British (as far as I remember). Maybe I'll watch it again at Christmas, and my faith in love and the world will be restored.
Someone told me something a few days ago, and it just makes me wish that people didn't keep something secret, especially when it seems so obvious to everyone else. What have they got to hide? I mean, I can't think of anyone who would be particularly affected, so why keep it all hush hush? It's garnering more interest because of this secrecy, which isn't really a secret, I have been thinking and saying it for ages. It kinda makes me realise just how little, and how much, I know some of my friends.
:(
Also, this NHS thing. I have NO idea what happened, for all my faults, I still do not read the news.. but now our NHS is being slagged off? By some Americans? Did I get that right? Please correct me if I am wrong.
Firstly, the NHS was set up after the second world war, I mean, I forget the details, but the idea is to create a health service which is nationwide, and readily accessible. It's free, in that we pay for it via taxes, but once you pay your tax, you can use it as much as you want. You can go to the GP complaining of everything, and you'll be seen, you can see consultants once every few months for years and years... it costs nothing. You can get operations for free, you can give birth for free, you know, you can get FOOD for free in hospitals if you ask nicely. Even if you aren't a patient.
And in America, it isn't free. You have to pay. And that's why loads of Americans are poor because of their medical bills. They need health insurance, they have to pay bills... when they go to the hospital, there are issues regarding payment, you can't really be seen without healthcare. And thus, it becomes the rich who get good healthcare, because they can pay for it.
We have private healthcare here in England too, but I wouldn't say it was as widespread as national healthcare. Here, as long as you have registered (for FREE?!) with a GP, you can get treatment.
And it isn't rubbish. If you have suspected cancer, you get seen within 2 weeks. They push other cases out of the way for you. If you have problems during pregnancy, you're seen weekly or every two weeks. You can get home visits, where the doctors LEAVE their place of work to VISIT you. You can be seen at any time, at an A&E (not, what do they call it in America? Emergency Room? Who made that up? Does accident mean the same as emergency? I don't think so) and get treated, and they make sure you're seen within 4 hours.
And you know, even though some treatments are not offered on the NHS, but in the private healthcare system where you have to pay, it is possible to get it for free if the circumstances indicate it.
So it isn't "evil" and "Orwellian". How many people do you see sticking up for the American healthcare system? Sure, the NHS has its faults, it isn't perfect, but we love it.
On another note, I had a really... uh, disturbing dream this morning. It involved magic, school, some sand coloured powder, um, one of my friends and I in a compromising position... it was just odd. And now I have finished hospital, I've been trying to sleep more. Woke up at 8 this morning.
P.S. Added some goals, for before I'm 30. The passport stamp thing isn't because I've not been abroad. It's just that the stamp is more of a formality, and you can, in reality, ask for one. But I've always been too shy :( I have seen BLG, but not headlining a tour or concert. I've been to a couple of the other "Ivy" restaurants, but not The Ivy, thought I'd see if it really is all that.
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