Day 5

Day 5
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> April 15, 7:07 am, Vellore
> I slept much better with my blanket! I still woke a few times and
> had to turn off the AC at one point, but I actually slept until
> Katherine's alarm went off. Finally.
>
> 11:34 pm
> Well I'm exhausted tonight. I went the whole day without a nap, so I
> think my clock has finally reset itself to Indian time. But yeah,
> i'm tired so I won't write too much tonight. It was a pretty good
> day though.
>
> We were with pediatrics again today. I really like them a lot. They
> are super nice to us. They are very careful to make sure we are
> included and answer all of our questions an stuff. Especially the
> doctor that I was working with yesterday. She is great.
>
> I was impressed today by how much they know! I don't feel like there
> is any lack of knowledge or skill in the physicians here, only,
> perhaps, in their resources / facilities. But I really feel like
> they know a lot and provide high quality of care to their patients.
>
> First thing this morning they had one of the MD candidates present a
> case. Sort of a morning report type meeting. I guess I should
> explain. My doctor explained to me that after medical school here
> you have something called an mbbs or something like that. It is a
> bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery. Then you do a year
> internship, where you rotate through specialties, and then finally
> you take an entrance exam and depending on how well you do you have
> a choice of what specialty program you get into. This would be the
> equivalent of our residency, except that they get they're MD at the
> end of that, instead of at the end of medical school. Anyway, so he
> presented a case of possible systemic JRA, SLE, or maybe even acutle
> leukemia. It was an interesting case. But the doctors grilled him
> pretty good and they went into tons of detail. It was kind of
> impressive. I think they memorize their text books here.
>
> Then later we rounded in the ward. We seemed to see a lot of
> encephalopathies. We saw some asthma, a pneumonia with an
> parapneumonic effusion, along with some other patients I can't
> recall. Oh, a couple of atypical febrile seizures too. Again, they
> were very thorough and provided as good or better of teaching as any
> of my attendings back home.
>
> Later today we finally managed to get tickets booked to Kerala for
> next weekend. Such a hassle, like everything else! I'm excited
> though. We'll leave next Thursday evening at like 9 something and do
> an overnight non-AC sleeper car and get there at like 6 in the
> morning. Should be fun.
>
> Then we went around trying to find a new place to stay for next
> week. It was a trek. We walked all over. I'm not sure what we'll end
> up doing. I think we want our own rooms, at least I know I do. It's
> just to cramped in this tiny little room with 3 people. I have to
> get out of there. Plus the people here are so shady! They actually
> charged my credit card twice when I checked in and put down some
> advanced money. They doubled it!! Can you believe these punks?
> Anyway, I've had enough of Aavana in. We looked at stuff over by the
> college campus, but everything was either full or didn't have shower
> and/or toilet. I'm okay with just a bucket shower and the little
> squat toilet (really just a porcelain hole in the ground), but
> Katherine wants a real shower and Aurora wants a real toilet, which
> are understandable I guess. Haha. Anyway, we'll see hat happens.
>
> We went and had dinner tonight at the hotel darling. Every wed night
> all the international students go and eat up in their rooftop
> restaurant. It's pretty nice up their, nice breeze and view. We
> didn't really get to talk to many people because we got there
> later... but maybe next week. The hotel darling special ice cream
> was tasty though. Grape, vanilla, pistacchio and mango ice creams
> with some fruit mixed in. Mmm. Okay I'm off to bed.
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