Patient's Autonomy

I spent 15 minutes in the operating theatre trying to polish my elementary eye anatomy fundamentals while waiting for Mr Surgeon to turn up. Then, came this really nice reg telling me, 'you know.. this is the first time... but this patient ....doesnt want to have a student.. in here'... Okay perfectly fine with me. Patient's autonomy utmost important, I respect that. I wonder to what extend is this principle practiced by people back at home? Thank God I did not scrub in. Imagine if I were to spend double 3-minute-session killing my hands with chlorhexidine or iodine and doing the rest of the procedure, I'll be utmost horrified. I never like those sterile gloves anyway.

On the way out, I met another surgical reg who's really cool - spent my on call night watching TV with him. How interesting is that for someone like me who's so pathetic and watches no TV. :( He asked me, 'haalloo .. are you having some fashion show or what?' ..'Noo ... I just got kicked out from the theatre, the patient doesnt want student..' ... 'No, no, I mean you were wearing something different this morning..' 'Oh, no, that was just ward round.. but I had nothing after that.' .. Okay .. *lift came* 'Cyah'.

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I wish I could sing 'Oh happppy dayyyyy' .. but the day isnt that happy with super shitty weather. It's going to be shitty for the next couple of days too. Sigh. I have too much to do and I just cant find the right grey matter to do it. Tired, tulan, hungry, tulan, pissed, tulan, bored, tulan, confused, tulan, frustrated, tulan and tulan tulan tulan.

Happy Mid Autumn Festival