I can't believe I forgot how awesome medicine is!

Today was possibly the longest day of classes I've ever had in a long while. I had

8am-11am Respiratory medicine GLS

11-12pm Hematology and Renal medicine lecture

12-1pm Respiratory medicine lecture

2-430pm Rural, Remote, Tropical & Indigenous Health GLS

5pm-815pm GPSN Suturing & Plastering Workshop (not a mandatory session but I decided to go because I wanted to

do be able to do some suturing and plastering in my mid year placement in Emerald)

Holy shit right? I admit I have been feeling a little stressed over the this year compared to last year. It just felt like the work was neverending that I've lost my enthusiasm for learning new things. Funny enough though, after today's epically long and tiring day, I think I've finally got my groove back on. It definitely had to do with the suturing and plastering workshop. We got to practice suturing on a pig's trotters and did plastering on each other. For the suturing workshop there were 5th & 6th year med students, a registrar and some doctors who helped out. The pig's skin was a bit tough to penetrate but I think I've finally gotten the hang of it. For the plastering bit, there were 2 orthopedic technicians who worked at Townsville hospital who helped out. It was really cool and got me all excited for medicine in general.

The sutures that I did:

The plaster my friend did on me: (I got plaster all over my bb trying to get it out to get a picture of us)

So yeah, I can't believe I forgot how awesome medicine is!