East Lancashire Hospitals Trust Work Placement – Day 2 Year 1 Early Clinical Experience In this session I was able to experience a clinical exposure session with first year medical students. It was a really incredible experience as I was able to recognise the differences between them and the fifth years whom I had sessions with…
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East Lancashire Hospitals Trust Work Placement – Day 1 Teaching Sessions with Year 5 Medical Students For my first session I attended a lecture presented by a Foundation Year 1 doctor with year 5 medical students on data interpretation. The students had to practise making diagnoses based on the values of different substances in the…
Read More“HUMAN GENETIC ENGINEERING IS A STEP TOO FAR.” ✂️
Every week I will be sharing a statement which I have argued either for or against in my college debating society. I find all these topics incredibly interesting, so I will be sharing point for both sides of the argument so I can reflect on my points as well as everybody else’s opinions. I may…
Read MoreNEW PATIENTS 🛏
In today’s shift I spoke to a new patient who had been admitted this week. She was really distressed and was speaking in an incoherent way. She displayed a variety of emotions such as fear and anger which I thought was rather worrying and she was repeatedly asking questions such as, “Is he here yet?…
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Today a patient with renal failure passed away. This really opened my mind as I was able to reflect on the fact that hospices don’t just deal with cancers, but also a wider range of life threatening illnesses, such as renal failure. I spoke to the hospice physician who told me about the difficulty of…
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MY FIRST EVER WORK EXPERIENCE! 👭👬
Sorry to those of you that got the email notification about this. I was re-organising my blog posts to give you all a lovely overview of all the work experience and volunteering I did whilst I was applying for Medicine and seemed to have pushed this very old reflection to you all via email. And…
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Life of a Medic 