Clinical Skills

"You need to appreciate what's normal before you understand what's abnormal."

That seems to be how we're learning stuff, which is cool I guess.

Lectures were lectures, so I'll leave them out. It's really nice to sit by myself for lectures though :)

(I saw your brother, Dande today, while I was having lunch. He looks the same as ever)

Do you guys remember Sajeev? Mahenderan or something.

He doesn't recognise me lol. I'm not sure I want to bring up primary school.

I think I enjoy some level of privacy and anonymity. I'm weird like that, perhaps.

Clinical skills was kinda dry, a bit like the pre-interview prep and such, and thinking about how consultations work. Ie; GP + Patient.


And I brought up something about how surfers can lose their sense of smell, and everyone in the room was like "what."

Including a GP from SYD's CBD.

So a bit awkward, but I only really regret not knowing specific details. It's always awkward teaching your teacher something. Especially if you're not on very good terms (It was the first lesson)

Also, her name's Marisa. Isn't that cool?

The one on the right is clearly my Clinical Skills Tutor.

Anyway, that doesn't matter. I'm not sure if I would have done anything different. It was a 2.5 hour session of stuff and lecturing and such.

Reflection...sometimes it's hard to see how you could or would change anything.

They seem relatively insignificant, so you don't really do much about it.

A few things I wanted to talk about:

1) ~dandelion* said...

You're shy?

Yes, yes I am. You're surprised? Apparently I'm confident, but I don't feel that's true.

You didn't know the rest of the grade who were there even by year 10? You seem surprised Fiona recognised you.

Some things aren't that important to me? I didn't really care about the grade that much.

To me, everyone seems a lot less intimidating and more approachable if they're in a position of equal standing, lol.

That's kinda true, but equal standing... eh. There are still a bunch of people in my cohort who I would see as being...eurgh. Unapproachable to the extreme. Which is fine - I don't really wanna approach them anyway, unless I have to.

Hm... Yeah, perhaps you should research into Christianity and Catholicism. Also, your logic made no sense, how does them having a singular truth relate to 'educating' other people about it? 

Perhaps I didn't make it...oh you explained yourself as well.

Oh, okay, you go on to explain later. I already feel like going "Oh, you're talking about these kind of things, I don't want to talk about it."

Haha, I know. Sorry. I just get a little irate when people I don't know try to force ideologies onto me, which includes discussion in a really loud voice on a quiet carriage. I think it might be a bad quality. I wonder if I'll get irate when a patient comes in and they insist for one reason or another that I should convert to a religion. Perhaps especially if it's to do with abortion? So many bioethical issues T.T I'm being completely hypothetical and probably silly, but I wonder when it does happen, how will I respond? I might end up regretting whatever choice of action I take.

On the other hand, I am completely grateful for my non-affiliation with any religion.

Okay. So, in Christianity, we believe that God gave us free will, so if you aren't willing to listen, then the Truth will not be revealed to you. Or perhaps the Truth has been revealed to you many times, but you don't realise it since you're not willing to listen.

That I did not know. I'll keep that in mind.

I'm assuming you know that Christians believe that if you don't believe, then you'll go to hell. And they don't want anyone to go to hell. So then they 'educate' others about it. How else would people hear about Christianity if no one tells them?

Well, that's sort of my point in a sense. I should have explained better. Remember Shakespeare?

"A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet" (I hope that's right)

Basically, just because you cannot or have not documented something does not invalidate its existence. Just because we don't have information on particular organism does not mean it doesn't exist.

In that same way, if there's the Truth, then just because we don't read the Bible does not invalidate its existence. The same goes for anything else the Bible documents. And as you said, perhaps we've been exposed to this Truth a bajillion times. If that's the case, why would more and more people need to know about it - why spread the word? To me, it seems more like an exercise in social bonding (nowadays) more than anything. Earlier on perhaps it would have been more about broadening the power base of the Church. Thankfully that doesn't happen as much anymore.

And lol, humans agreeing on anything as a race? Not going to happen.

It will if enough people are educated and appreciate the value of education. The only problem is stubborn resistance (to being assimilated :P), and thus, yes it might not happen in any of our lifetimes. Humanity is so diverse that perhaps what is perceived as 'stupidity' and 'dogma' is just your random coalescence of ideas and external stimuli, which may or may not lead to some kind of evolution?

Maybe I have too much faith in humanity sometimes.

2) delete12 said...

didnt click on either of them, mad?

You have no idea how mad I am. Super mad. Really extra super mad. And stuff.

the square root of -1 is i, but people don't know that unless you educate them

That's kinda my point - knowledge has to spread via education - it isn't self-propagating.

you only get one bit of time of childhood innocence/silliness, and maybe it would be fun to go back relive that.

I think you get as much of that as you can make for yourself. Maybe I'm just being silly and you're right, and I just hate endings so that interferes with how I see the world. [Lol Agings and Endings]

and it would be so fun to listen to all of these different songs if i could forget what they sounded like, because the peak of how much i like a song is usually when i don't know it perfectly. once i can trace it, like, mentally sing along with it, except not just singing, every instrument, then it's not the same.

I kinda wish I was more musical, but at the same time, I don't really. For the record, Rocksmith is never going to be my cup of tea. I sing along to my songs a lot. And whistle. And don't care when people stare.

Little jealous that you all have societies and stuff. I'm part of the "Go-home-after-uni Society".

I will say that I'm not sure I want to be in a club.

Hoping you are enjoying that which is uni. Need to work on my assignment now...