Real Funny stories from my Medical College
Hello, I'm a medical student, 3rd year and this blog is my hobby. Thinking about what to write next I had a stupendous idea. In this article I would like to tell u about a few funny incidents from my med school. Most are funny and few sad. The thing is life of a doctor is not exactly very interesting, as they show on Grey's Anatomy. But sometimes you do encounter interesting stories that you remember for long.
The first time I saw cadavers- Anatomy is a first year subject, and I can never forget the first afternoon at the college, when we entered the dissection hall. The pungent, strong smell of formalin was everywhere and it made my mind wonder can formalin fumes be harmful to health, that's until I saw shrunk, dark & scary dead bodies lying on the table waiting for us to touch, dissect and learn from it. I remember a poem saying "when the dead teaches the living", it was literally meant over there. It was utterly disgusting first few days. The obese cadavers were particularly difficult to dissect at torso and abdomen, too much of fat tissues to cut through to reach important parts. Every afternoon for 3 hours we spent with our cadaver friends for one whole year, cutting through all the tissues one by one, till none remained. Some interesting people would eat there lunches while standing right beside the cadaver, it wasn't brave, it was disgusting. Few perverts wont stop ogling the dead females, heights of insanity!!! Fortunate for us we got to know how our cadaver died when we cut open the skull. There was a huge haematoma (lump of coagulated blood) which had compressed his brain so badly that survival was not an option. Could be a Bathroom accident, where his head hit the floor hard or a Road traffic accident. Over the time it was very normal for us to walk, and joke around the dead and at times about the dead, no offence.
Dealing with patients- When in second year, there onwards we have to examine at least one patient each day and present a case about it to the teacher. Most patients are very helpful with that, some are not, while a few downright hated us. They knew we are juniors, they are not receiving any benefits by talking to us, and we just keep pouring in, different semesters at different time of the day. I remember when posted in surgery department, as soon as we would enter the wards, every single patient would cover themselves with blankets and pretend they are asleep. Since we are not allowed to wake up a sleeping patient for our case, they would successfully avoid us with their pretence. That was both hilarious and humiliating. Examining kids in paediatrics wards was a giant pain in the ass. They would cry at top of their lungs all the time, how are we supposed to let them know "WE NO CANNIBAL" Obgny postings were particularly theoretical for us guys, coz we were not allowed to touch the females. Often a patient's history had been taken so many times that he knew the pattern of History taking better then us.
That's enough humiliation for one time, will return soon with more stories...
Chao
The first time I saw cadavers- Anatomy is a first year subject, and I can never forget the first afternoon at the college, when we entered the dissection hall. The pungent, strong smell of formalin was everywhere and it made my mind wonder can formalin fumes be harmful to health, that's until I saw shrunk, dark & scary dead bodies lying on the table waiting for us to touch, dissect and learn from it. I remember a poem saying "when the dead teaches the living", it was literally meant over there. It was utterly disgusting first few days. The obese cadavers were particularly difficult to dissect at torso and abdomen, too much of fat tissues to cut through to reach important parts. Every afternoon for 3 hours we spent with our cadaver friends for one whole year, cutting through all the tissues one by one, till none remained. Some interesting people would eat there lunches while standing right beside the cadaver, it wasn't brave, it was disgusting. Few perverts wont stop ogling the dead females, heights of insanity!!! Fortunate for us we got to know how our cadaver died when we cut open the skull. There was a huge haematoma (lump of coagulated blood) which had compressed his brain so badly that survival was not an option. Could be a Bathroom accident, where his head hit the floor hard or a Road traffic accident. Over the time it was very normal for us to walk, and joke around the dead and at times about the dead, no offence.
Dealing with patients- When in second year, there onwards we have to examine at least one patient each day and present a case about it to the teacher. Most patients are very helpful with that, some are not, while a few downright hated us. They knew we are juniors, they are not receiving any benefits by talking to us, and we just keep pouring in, different semesters at different time of the day. I remember when posted in surgery department, as soon as we would enter the wards, every single patient would cover themselves with blankets and pretend they are asleep. Since we are not allowed to wake up a sleeping patient for our case, they would successfully avoid us with their pretence. That was both hilarious and humiliating. Examining kids in paediatrics wards was a giant pain in the ass. They would cry at top of their lungs all the time, how are we supposed to let them know "WE NO CANNIBAL" Obgny postings were particularly theoretical for us guys, coz we were not allowed to touch the females. Often a patient's history had been taken so many times that he knew the pattern of History taking better then us.
The gynaecology experience- The first time I saw a woman delivering a baby was the first time I saw a woman naked at all. I was kinda grossed out, am so sorry no offence. Between a normal delivery and a Cesarean section, I would watch 15 C-Section any day because I cannot bear to have a patient shouting with pain at the top of their lungs in front of me, its too disturbing and nightmare inducing for me. There goes my Gynaecology career!!! Anyways, a particularly disturbing experience was watching an Abortion. Even though I support planned parenting and MTPs, due to personal reasons I once almost fainted watching an Abortion.
When I had a Surgery myself- A semi-major surgery was performed on me when I was in second year. I was operated by one of our teachers, and funny, it was on teachers day of 2014. Initially I was very confident, but as soon as day of admission came I was dead scared. My amazing friends supported me a lot during those days. Getting Spinal Anaesthesia was a terrible experience as I'm sensitive and I flinched badly. God bless those doctors! They still did it right. A funny story I remember, after one receives Spinal Anaesthesia one cannot pee for several hours, and I unfortunately have a tiny bladder. When I woke up after surgery it felt like my bladder was about to burst, and I cried like a baby before all residents, seniors and my crush that I wanted to pee. Pathetic Me! :( I got intubated and the pee bag got filled pretty fast, and every one who came to meet me thereafter exclaimed "whoa! that's a lot of pee"
That's enough humiliation for one time, will return soon with more stories...
Chao
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