Thursday, November 11, 2004
The First Rule
It seems Johnicology has finally made the transition from medical student to cockroach pre-registration house officer.
Welcome to the fold, Johnicology. Now it gets really fun. Heh heh heh heh. Heh. (Evil laughter.)
In other news, re-minisce is sick as a dog. I've always wondered why we say that, since my doggies were always pretty well.
Speaking of doggies, doggy-fanatic xena's website has been dead for well over a week now. What gives?
In response to the question if high-impact exercise like fencing is dangerous while thenut patient is sick : there is a very, very, infinitesimally small chance of viral myocarditis leading to fulminant heart failure and death. Re-minisce suspects some of the NS boys who died after route marches due to "heart problems" may well have had something along these lines, although congenital heart malformations / arrythmias also come to mind. The ex vice-principal of SCGS, I believe, died of this condition.
However, there is also the "doctor clause" - re-minisce suspects it's probably a recessive gene present only in people dumb enough to become clinicians. We're always "immune" to complications of illnesses you see. Much like the time my dad went on his daily ten click run with moderate-severe right lower quadrant pain and wound up septicaemic from a ruptured appendix. (It's like HIV : These are things which happen to other people.)
At the end of the day, re-minisce is compelled to say on behalf of all doctordom the world over - Do as we say - not as we do.
Welcome to the fold, Johnicology. Now it gets really fun. Heh heh heh heh. Heh. (Evil laughter.)
In other news, re-minisce is sick as a dog. I've always wondered why we say that, since my doggies were always pretty well.
Speaking of doggies, doggy-fanatic xena's website has been dead for well over a week now. What gives?
In response to the question if high-impact exercise like fencing is dangerous while the
However, there is also the "doctor clause" - re-minisce suspects it's probably a recessive gene present only in people dumb enough to become clinicians. We're always "immune" to complications of illnesses you see. Much like the time my dad went on his daily ten click run with moderate-severe right lower quadrant pain and wound up septicaemic from a ruptured appendix. (It's like HIV : These are things which happen to other people.)
At the end of the day, re-minisce is compelled to say on behalf of all doctordom the world over - Do as we say - not as we do.
