A day on Senior Medicine placement - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #05

good morning everyone welcome back to the channel my name is Ali and this is week two of our senior medicine placement in Kingsland Hospital it's about 6:20 in the morning we did a silly thing yesterday and that we signed up for the local gym and also signed up to attend a circuit training class at 7:00 in the morning so we're going to drive down do circuits and then make it back to the hospital sometime tonight [Applause] I feel like death warmed up two hours later I feel good I feel good that it's now 8:00 a.m. and I music I've been transformed to this morning gym life and until 6:00 a.m. okay so it's about half past 10:00 in the morning and I'm now hanging out in the doctor's mess at the hospital I just spent a while speaking to a palliative care patient we have a seminar where we have to discuss a palliative case with the consultant and kind of reflect on how it made us feel and that sort of thing so that was quite an interesting experience maybe I'll talk about that a bit later but I need to need to gather my thoughts about it first so it's lunchtime and we're all playing this random Facebook Messenger game called every week would recommend a surprisingly addictive so calcium and phosphate have this kind of weird balancing act thing both hands go down between the gin so convulsions arrhythmia tetany and numbness around OPM's hello again guys we just finished our amazing teaching session with the emergency medicine consultant it was it was really good so there were four of us and he just took us around A&E and we saw patients there was a lady who came in with fluid that was leaking from a nose which could have been cerebrospinal fluid from the brain and she had some other symptoms a lot of us did a five-minute history where we asked her about was going on of the core questions one of us did an examination of the cranial nerves and it was really like short and snappy and he was really kind of making us think about what the important questions were because before kind of for the last two years we've kind of been trained to kind of go through the whole process but now we have to start getting into the into the mindset that we're asking the important questions because we don't have half an hour to do it - you know to be with someone in A&E so a few x-rays as well there was a lady who had come in with chest pain which everyone I thought was something cardiac related so but actually it turned out that after doing the chest x-ray there was actually a little nodule in in one of the lungs which could have been some kind of cancerous thing so the doctor who who saw that was telling us about the sensitive conversation she had to have with the family and the husband yeah quite an interesting session all in all yeah okay one minute dude talk to you I can feel your mother panting what did you can say that will 18 and you go to 5400 his level is aspiration the characters level and let's see let's see a character this is the strawberry pie that I made I didn't make it yogurt Adam banana so we have a whatsapp group with some of the guys in the air below and we invited them all over to play articulate but none of them responded so the four of us are going to play pandemic instead then I think about pandemic is that it's a collaborative board game previously we were all always kind of into the competitive ones but the problem with the competitive ones is that someone wins but then everyone everyone else kind of has to lose it's really quite draining to have to spend a few hours trying to actively screw over your friends so with this one we're all kind of putting up putting our heads together and actually trying to beat the game and it's surprisingly hard well we just finished talking of pandemic and we were close to winning it and then we got destroyed because a card came up that we weren't expecting we all have a palliative care essay thing that we have to do for tomorrow that very few of us have actually started so I think that's what we what we'll be doing for the next hour or so but I think we'll end this blog today thank you very much for watching I hope you enjoyed it if you liked the video please give it a thumbs up if you haven't subscribed yet please could you do so and I will see you in the next one bye Oh bye see ya