Still Marching that Turkish March

To Phu: Yeah, I'm much better now. Thankfully, I got better just before clinicals. Having diarrhoea during clinicals would be pretty tough. Doctor Who season 4 was pretty awesome I enjoyed it heaps. The crappy thing is that next year there's no season 5, just 4 specials, cos Tennant is off doing Hamlet or something Shakespeare. Road trip was awesome fun, but I was pretty much the only heavy drinker. Do you have a Facebook profile? Prolly easier to catch up that, make blogging a little bit redundant sometimes I think.

Two weeks of clinical are over, and that means I only have to endure another month. Endure, I make it sound bad. It's not bad, it's quite enlightening to learn more about radiography, to put theory into practice and in some case ignore what the book says and use amazingly helpful shortcuts.

I have to do a few reports for this clinical, and I managed to work out how to use their archaic computer program. Oh the computers run on Windows but the software that ties everything together is some custom job that while is very stable is a little bit old. You have to select the option you want, then press enter to access it. But it's not that bad. Had to do a couple of interviews with patients asking about their current and past history. Probably something more on the doctory side, since radiographers don't usually take patient histories.

Still, I managed to print copies of the x-rays and the radiologist's reports. The radiologists are basically doctors who have undergone specialised training to better interpret x-rays, CTs, ultrasounds, MRIs and all other sorts of medical imaging. Their reports make it easier for me to type my assignments since I don't have to guess at what I'm seeing, and the technical terms are already there. And future doctors have a look at "encopresis". Had to x-ray a 3yo with that. Wasn't to bad, but it's a pretty shitty condition to have I reckon. And yes, pun intended.

The daily train trips to Gosford and back are still pretty long, but with podcasts, music and other uni radiographers to talk to, it's actually not that bad. Talked to a 3rd year physiotherapist and it was quite interesting to learn about it. They have 15 weeks of clinical, stringed together in three 5-week blocks with a week break in between. Which is kinda sucky.

But TGIF, eh? There's a BBQ on tomorrow with family friends, although I had no idea until an hour ago. Well that will be some fun.