Urology happenings

Mr Rajan: Tell me which cancers metastasizes to bones?

My brain: Lydia Please Be The King
My answer: Lungs Prostate Breast Thyroid Kidney

Mr Rajan: Good!


Good job Lydia for giving this idea to us when we were studying for Musculoskeletal System last time! Obviously Lydia created this herself!

This is the one Nadia created:

Examples of Gram negative rods:
Legionella pneumophila, Bordetella pertussis, Yersinia pestis, Haemophilus Influenza
Neumonics:
Lydia Bang Your Head

One odd thing happen today:

Old granny : Hi there, are u going down to ground floor?
Me : No. Do u want to go down?
Old granny : Yes , but i need someone to accompany me downstairs. Usually the nurse will accompany me.
(She's in her pyjamas & has the hospital tag on her wrist)
Me : Ok sure I can take u down instead. Why do u need to go downstairs? (I was making sure to make sure that she knows what she is doing & also so that I won't be accused of "conspiring" with the patient who wants to runaway!)
Old granny: Actually, I need to go down for a smoke.

Right. Then she said that she was admitted after she had a stroke & some other details that she refuse to elaborate to me. (She is in a Urology ward surely there's a problem with her waterworks. But she s not telling me.)
Ahh wat to do. I m not supposed to support her to go down for a SMOKE!
sheesh. but then again. she's already so old, it's too difficult to kick the habit and i dont think she knows much about atherosclerosis. She just need the mild "high".
Many COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) patients also cant seems to kick of the habit too. When they are not in bed in the ward, they are downstairs smoking by the hospital's entrance.

Old granny, wrapped her arms around mine like I m her granddaughter & we walked to the hospital's entrance. Thinking about telling her to cut down/quit smoking but I can't seem to open my mouth to do it. Oh well.

Observe 2 different extreme reactions today:

1) How happy, relieved & grateful the patients were when the consultant told them that they are now free of the cancer after all the treatments(surgery/chemo/radiotherapy) & from the blood results and scans. Make me feel happy for them as well. It feels as if they just striked lottery or won a major championship!

2) How silent and "stony-dull" when the consultant announced to the patient that he has cancer. The patient's daughter cried. Devastated look on his face. Worried look of his wife. Just silence. What a big stigma the 'cancer' word can bring. Consultant & nurse did a very good job in explaining & reassuring them but it all takes time to absorb the shock. Reminds me of last time when Pa told me that Granpa had Duke's B colon adenocarcinoma.

Ahh..shit happens.