Following doctor’s orders…

No not that kind…
“You there – milk, two sugars!... Well don’t just stand there, I’ve got work to do!”
“You there jump!” – don’t say “Er, why?”... you say “Ok, how high?”
“You! This man has this list of symptoms, how should we treat him? “Err well I would…” “Too slow, he died!”

I mean come on… give us a chance! Life as a med student or F1 is hard people! From what I’ve seen and heard, it is like working for Hitler! Lol. Ok so I’m exaggerating but seriously. Juniors have orders constantly barked at them and made to do menial tasks. Maybe that just how we’re suppose to learn, who knows. lol.

Also senior Dr’s cannot be arsed trying to remember your names so you’ll usually hear “YOU” yelled at you with the senior’s finger pointed towards the next victim. Most of them don’t like the idea that you’re following them around, they don’t care how well you did at university and they do not wish to know what sparked your desire to become a doctor. Ok so I’m painting a bleak picture but you do get to learn an awful lot. Learning theory is one thing, but putting it into practice and seeing it used is something totally different. You get to see some amazing things on rounds and it can be very rewarding. Plus you may even get to publish a paper if the case is exceptionally interesting but that is just an aside, the primary emphasis is towards the care of your patient.

Yet at the same time it makes me wonder; when do you switch off from your professional life and go back to living your personal life? What I meant to say is as medic, when do you stop diagnosing every person you see? When do learn to just step back and let others deal with it? When do you stop feeling guilty for things that are totally out of your control? However that all depends on if actually HAVE a personal life to begin with. I mean most of the seniors I see, seem to live at the hospital and hardly ever seem to switch off. But then the logical part of me thinks that they must switch off at some point, otherwise the stress of the work would probably lead to burnout. So I guess in the medical world, personal lives do exist, it’s just that they don’t seem to get the same level of importance as work lives?

People requests

WOW, do I get some amazing friend requests sometimes! Usually it’s just people randomly adding you on FB, windows live spaces or any of the other networking sites. The requests that make me giggle are those that are accompanied by quirky albeit slightly weird messages. I actually got one very recently, err yesterday in fact, lol. Needless to say I didn’t add him. But as I was clearing out my email folders, I came across a few more that I had saved… probably ones that I wanted to include in a post like this, lol. Here’s my list of reasons of why I probably wouldn’t add you to my friends list…

1) Being too needy – A perfect example if ever I needed one…
A uni student on Goodreads, added me as a friend and I accepted him as his profile seemed interesting. Seen as I added him that was a pretty good sign that I didn’t mind, right? However, it was exam week at uni and I genuinely forgot to reply to his message. Totally my fault, I admit it. However this was then followed by regular emails every couple of days asking why I wasn’t talk to him, asking had he done anything wrong and why I didn’t want to be his friend anymore. DUDE! I DON’T EVEN KNOW YOU! End result – profile blocked.

2) Freshies – I shouldn’t need to say anymore, but just to be clear…
“Dear Saima how are you hope u will fine & cool i want to friendship with you do you like friends so plz say something”
Yes I do like friends, except I just don’t know you! Also by adding all my friends to your circle of friends will NOT make me want to accept your friend request. Really how dumb do you think we are? lol

3) Strangely over confident –
“Hey. Don’t worry about who I am Why I sent this invitation 0r If I know or not The main thing is Add me to your network Then we’ll take it from there!”
Lol. Ok this person gets some points for being different, but then there are others. Sending me pictures of the person stood by a flashy car, working out in the gym or whatever else, will get grouped into this category. Not impressed.

4) Not understanding the word NO! –
If for whatever reason I’ve rejected your friend request once, twice, hell three times even please could you stopping adding me. It’s just embarrassing for everyone involved.

5) Getting requests from sites I’m not even a member of –
I think in addition to studying, working, socialising in the real world, I think that me keeping my Facebook, Twitter updated and keeping my blog alive is enough isn’t it? Getting requests from random people on other sites will not make me want to sign up. To name a few – Jhoos, Multiply, Netlog, IMVU, jaxter, Tagged, Perfspot and so on. LOL at Perfspot, which I accidently read as pervspot the first time around! In my defence I was in a rush and skim reading :P

Ok I may be being a bit too harsh really. I mean to balance out the weird messages; I do actually get a lot of really lovely messages regularly from people I don’t even know. Here are a couple of responses from the days when I first started blogging using windows live space…

1) Subject: Hey there
Hi Sam. So, looks like the time has arrived for me to start using this account. I can resist no more! I wandered into your profile and well, I thought you sounded interesting. My name is ****** *******. I think me and you would be friends, cos you seem pretty cute and cool, it's ever so hard to tell in this digital world, lol :) Hey maybe we could chat sometime? Ah you know what they say… looks wins over the eyes, but personality wins over the heart, haha. Sorry I do go on sometimes, lol. talk to you soon, take care ******
Friendly enough right?

2) Subject: Hi my names Saima 2, but i am 11
Helo
Omg. ur names is Saima and so is mine
ur a pisces and so am i. i was born in march, but i am 11
u liv in Bradford and my mum is from bradford
ur probably muslim 2? i am
but i'm 11, so plz don't do nutin 2me ( i no u won't)
i just wanted 2 tel u dat there is some 1 just like u!
sort ov, lol
c u! i dunno y i sed dat!
mwah
x
I was a dubious at first as the people on the internet aren’t always what they seem to be, lol. But I think the line “I just wanted 2 tel u dat there is some 1 just like u!” was soo sweet. It got to me a little and just made me think, what’s the harm in replying? If it’s just a prankster then so be it. After my initial reply, I got this…
hey saima
its ur 11-yr-old frend saima!

sorry i haven't been e-mailin u!
its just dat i've been really busy wiv skool and my parents hav gone 2 hajj!
so i had 2 help dem out n stuf

oh yh

EID MUBARAK!!!!

how was ur eid??? mine was quite boring(as always!)
i'm glad its da x-mas hols now i can relax, watch tv n eat CHOCOLATE!
i'm a fan ov chocolate u c! lol
anyway g2g. maybe c ya round?
i don't live in Bradford, i live in east london
cuz afta my mum got maried my dad wanted 2 liv ere

anyway take care! c ya
x
I’m kinda pleased it wasn’t a prankster. I mean seriously, how cute is this little girl?! It always brings a smile to my face whenever I read sweet messages like that. But from someone so young? My younger brother is 10 years old and there is no way that I would expect Billy to write such a cute email to a complete stranger. (Actually I prefer him not to as there are some dodgy people out there!)

It’s weird how many different people you come across in your life and the ways in which you connect with them. And also feel free to continue sending me cute messages, they are most welcome and I definitely do not mind! Love to all :)

Pigeon Smuggler

Pigeon Smuggling - again!

Again?! A man tried to smuggle 14 songbirds down his trousers and unsurprisingly he got caught. There are a few questions that arise – firstly, why would you smuggle them like that, down your trousers? And secondly, the name songbird suggests that they may not be the quietest birds to keep hidden.

Ah well, at least he had shiny shoes :)

Seriously, what is it with the rise in activity of smuggling birds - especially down people’s trousers! (see one of my previous post’s here) Is this a new thing or has it always been around and I’ve only just noticed it now? I still can’t help but laugh every time I think about it, lol!