Advice for the Young at Heart

Finally, my OSCE is over. Basically a practical exam. It was tough in its own way, having to remember quite a bit of stuff.

The areas that I had to know the projections and pathologies were facial bones, including mandible and TMJs, cervical, thoracic, lumber spine and hip and pelvis. I'm pretty fine with everything except the facial bones part. I didn't do many facial bones, simply because it was usually easier to stick the patient in the CT machine. So I was hoping that I wouldn't get facial bones, but unfortunately I scored a mandible. Pub brawl, query fracture mandible. I did that whole thing on theory, and since I've never actually done that view I couldn't really offer any extra information.

The shitty thing was that the examiner asked me what projections I would do. I gave an answer, then he asked me if I would do a lateral, the side on view. I told him that I felt meh about it, since it doesn't offer that much information due to superimposition of all the facial bones. I'd guess I'd do it, but I'd prolly skip it. Then he tells me to do a lateral projection. So I blank out, since technically there is no specific projection for a lateral mandible. So I did a lateral skull, but centered to the jaw instead. I wonder whether he deliberately asked me about the lateral projection, then ask me to actually do it to see whether it threw me off.

I think I did alright. The examiners were also marking the way we introduced ourselves, patient care and all that jazz. So even if I mucked up the projections, I'm pretty sure I did alright for everything else. So now all I have is the two final exams, and to prepare for my clinicals. Actually my clinical ends a day early now, but the tradeoff is that we have to show up to uni the next day to hand stuff in. Not that bad for me, since I live close.

My brother has got me playing World of Warcraft. It's a private server, not the official ones, so I don't have to pay a monthly fee (yes, Asian stinginess strikes). So I'll do a bit of playing in between studying for finals. And I can play a few hours every night during clinicals.

So I was browsing the internet and I found this:
That's actually not a bad form of alternative transport, if you don't mind looking like an idiot. You can use it to get to the shops and carry your grocercies. Space and power might be a problem. They should add an electric motor or something to help out.