My first week back in Edinburgh....

Wow. 3rd year Medical Student.

Has a nice ring to it.

Only, I have lectures from 9-5 this whole week. That's C-R-A-Z-Y. What happened to the 1 lecture per day in 2nd year???

Lots of new faces. New people. Heard that about 10 transfered from Cambridge, 5 from Oxford, about 15 from St Andrews and 10 from IMU, Malaysia. Students who did a Bsc the year before. Our class has grown.

Today we had a patient come in and he was interviewed by our lecturer. Q & A session followed. Poor ol' fella.... a great heart attack candidate. Born with low birth weight, typical Scottish diet, smokes like a chimney, both dad and bro died of heart attacks, mom waiting for a triple bypass surgery.... Things like this are real, mind you. Well, yeah, the only snag was that our so-called 'patient' was actually a professional actor. He was totally convincing and took us all in. Well, technically, that's our lecturer's fault since he arranged it. But, yup, medical students gets professional actors to act as their patients in exams. And they cry when we break bad news to them, they get angry if you say something wrong. This all happens during the exam itself. Look what medical students have to go through.

Hm.

Went traditional Scottish ceilidh dancing last Sunday. Twisted my knee and its been hurting since. Went for a free Taekwondo class today and my knee is like, yeah... gone.

Someone needs to develop knee transplants.

Worse thing to happen this week was that I am literally being forced to go down to London. By bloody AMSA. And I have an exam d day after I get back. And I'm going down on my birthday. How sucky is that?