A simpler time

Sorry for the lack of updates, but we’re currently in our “exam-study period” or for me, self-imposed quarantine. 6 exams upcoming within the next week, so it’s pretty much crunch time right now. It’s a bit disconcerting when you open your notes and realize that you don’t remember ANYTHING from the past semester. Sigh…so much for learning for life huh? I guess we know who the questionable admission is.

So studying has been going slow…very slow. I had set up a schedule for myself, but as always, things don’t always go as planned. The respiration section was much too long and I haven’t even gotten to ENT. And Cardio? Well good ole cardio is once again painfully slow. The only saving grace in the whole matter is that it’s pass/fail so at least it will (hopefully) not be so miserable.


Anyhow, you know me and studying. I can’t help but…ahem…distract myself while I read. So what is the choice of amusement for this week? Other than caffeine? Okay, this is super, super, majorly off-topic but I’ve been watching Road to Avonlea and Anne of Green Gables on DVD and YouTube. Because, hello, these were/are my favourite shows when I was younger (or maybe even now).

The idyllic settings are sooo pretty, so much so that I wish I was studying somewhere in PEI rather than looking out at the car park of my building (which is so depressingly annoying).

And don’t get me started on the romance factor. Anne and Gilbert? Felicity and Gus Pike? Sigh....

Okay, fine that had nothing whatsoever to do with medicine. But then again, I’m the best at finding odd connections between random things in life and medicine. So here goes:

- Gilbert was a doctor (haha!)

- Felicity went to medical school!

- Last but not least, the whole series was set in a rural location…and guess what our class is doing in ~1 week? We’re being sent off to rural communities around the province to do clinical observerships for a week. So Ha!

There you have it. My usual exam post on procrastination. Till next time! Until then, it’s angina drugs for Stuff… There’s nothing more sleep-inducing than a lecture on calcium channel blockers.