Pruit Igoe

Urrgh, an asssignment and exam in one day. The assignment wasn't too bad, it was the exam that had me bothered.

The oral viva exam basically has us read a request form for an x-ray, decipher its meaning, deduce the likely patient condition and justify what x-ray series to perform. It meant a lot of worrying about pathology and exposure factors (how penetrating and how much x-rays). Luckily for me I got a pretty cool examiner and a relatively easy question pertaining to the right knee. For the medically inclined (rest of you can skip): 81yo female, hit by a car on R lateral side, querying possible fracture of tibial plateau and lateral femoral condyle. Basically an AP and LAT projection. The hardest one was querying fracture ribs and pneumothorax and the patient was stuck in a wheelchair.

Seriously, I'm having quite a bit of fun in this course. So even if the oral viva was scary, it didn't matter that badly to me. I did my best, and after hearing about some of the other scenarios, I started to research what I would do.

So another three weeks of uni, then a week of stuvac and then exams. Several assignments due in the final three weeks and I'm procrastinating already. The bad thing is that several books that would be very helpful, almost necessary for the assignment due soon have already been taken out by opportunistic students. And I might not be able to get my hands on them in time. That's one thing that sucks about Cumbo. There is only so many books and its first in, first served. Some friends band together and lock the books in an endless cycle of eternal recalling. I'm not sure if that problem exists at the main campus. Probably does.

Man, tired. I'll be putting that assignment off until tomorrow. Or maybe the day after tomorrow.