Med School Diaries #2: Pigeons, Pain, and Surgery Posting
I'm about a month into my 3rd year, and its safe to say that Surgery was the luckiest first posting I could possibly have gotten. Not as relaxed as Psych, but not as intense as Peads or Internal Med - this nice, even, middle ground where I can learn basic history taking and how to do a general examination without the pressure of remembering all the definitions and growth charts and dermatomes just yet. It does come with its own challenges, though. One of my friends lovingly referred to this semester as our "Touching Grass Arc" Starting off with the leg pain - but hear me out. I can walk. Back in Melaka I was hitting 40 minutes on the treadmill daily (an hour on weekends) WITH INCLINE. Leg day was my best day in the gym because I did those goblet squats with a 7kg dumbbell like a champ. So yeah! I can totally walk. But the standing? Standing should be considered in extreme sport. Standing in those corridors, our lab coats stuffed with at least 1kg in equipment and no...
