started on another jap drama, JIN.
a pretty good choice i must say.qt unexpected but i think it would help before i go on to preceptorship.
it's about this brain surgeon who operated on a tumour in his gf's brain, although the tumour is out but the gf remains in a vegetative state. from then on he would give the difficult cases for other brain surgeons.quite cliche up till here right. but due to an unexpected fall down a flight of stairs while struggling with an escaped patient, he time-traveled to the edo period (1862 omg lol) and had to perform brain surgery on a samurai who got injured while trying to save him. he realised how difficult it is to perform such simple surgeries during that period with the lack of medicine and technologies. and how he actually took simple things like anesthesia for granted, when the lack of it would cause so much excruciating pain to the patient. for once, he felt the pain. he felt for the patient. it's only 1 episode(watch with much difficulty cos the links loaded super slowly) but it got me thinking of pharmacy HAHA like duh.
i think one tendency that we have now, or at least i do, is to offer medicine as the 1st thing that comes to our mind, rather than offering some words of concern when a friend says i've got a headache. and that's on a personal level. perhaps it's still not that bad because as your loved ones you'll naturally show them care and concern. but to your patients whom you probably only see for like 5min before they find you annoying, would you be more focused on the medications and just delivering your counseling points dryly? do we look at the patient or just the lab data and the medications and go oh okay this drug can be optimised to blahblah, and then our duty is done? i do know that sometimes we are limited by the structure of how medical professionals work, and the actual fact of what we actually do, but i want to hold on to that glimmer of hope that we can do just that bit more, to grasp more opportunity to build rapport with patients, putting ourselves in their shoes instead of labeling them as annoying people who wouldn't stop complaining. it's an ideal i would hold on to unto i face the real world (that is, in 1 wk's time LOL). then perhaps i'll revise my thinking to be more realistic but still with that bit of hope in it haha.
+ val-* @ 4:30 PM