latest news from the deanary: my batch will be having a super long electives posting at the end of fourth year, a total of sixteen weeks because they're combining the third year electives with the fourth year ones. the intention seems to be to encourage us to do research. hmmm. at the end of this year we will instead be doing one of the three long postings to replace the electives. wow-wee.

anyhoo, this morning when the docs were doing their rounds, a few of us examined this old lady who seemed pretty weak and kept complaining of giddiness. we didn't think very much about it until we returned to the cubicle one hour later for a tutorial and found the docs busy resuscitating her. it's the second reminder in as many days of what we are -really- dealing with when working in a hospital.