CIMDHOG

The above notice hangs in front of the neonatal department. The original message reads: Taking of photograph is not allowed. ...but a smart and hilarious person modified it to: Taking of photograph with less than 5MP is not allowed. ...nice one...

The most important property of a medical student is the logbook...believe it or not, that small and petite book is a very important aspect of being in medical school. Right from the orientation, it has been hammered into our heads that we need 75% attendance to qualify to sit for exams, and the tricky part is the resit exam, in the past, students who didn't make attendance can still sit for the resit exam which is always six weeks after the results are out, but recent developments claim that students who didn't make attendance and therefore did not sit for the main exam are not eligible to sit for resit exam, coz they never wrote the main exam in the first place, to cut this long story short, any student who does not make attendance, as an automatic one year repeat...and trust me that is dreadful. This has become a standing statuette, that even consultants know that they should not deprive us of signatures, coz immediately the session is coming to an end, med students are alr

Everyone should be lucky enough to have one true friend in life. Gerdi McKenna has 11. After their friend Gerdi McKenna was diagnosed with breast cancer, a group of women headed to the hair salon to do something few friends would consider. Ten of them shaved their heads, and one cut off more than 15 inches of hair. Shaving off all their hair meant giving up their pride, but they had each other to help with the nerves. "I learned one thing this morning and that is that hair is but a small part of you," one of the women said after shaving her head. After all their heads were shaved, it was time for the women to surprise Gerdi with their new do's. "I think she's going to be very happy, upset and tearful," one woman predicted. When Gerdi arrived, the women pulled off their matching beanies to reveal their now bald heads. The look on Gerdi's face was worth more than a head of hair ever could be. "You girls look AWESOME," she said through tears. Ne

Someone drew the famous Oscar selfie with a ball point pen and it is mind blowing...am quite flabbergasted...

The last two weeks has been the most stressful, having to be on call every day...resume school for 8am go for class by 2pm, which last for at least three hours, resume night call by 7:30pm...it was pure hell. we had a countdown from the start of the posting, and it was a big relief at the end of the two weeks. We were jubilating for the end of that era. Our jubilation was cut short when we resumed NNU (neonatal unit) this morning and got the full gist of what we are to do for the next two weeks...its exhausting even at the thought of it. To summarize: 6 hr wardround thrice a week, calls every day, tutorials, clerkings, and since most of the house officers are leaving, we'll be the attending house officers pending the resumption of the new ones. Trust me its not as easy as it sounds...takes a whole lot...no wonder I have been pale....

This is a hilarious consult written by one of my friends. It reads: Greetings from the unit consultant................ The above named patient presented with ARTHROGRYPOSIS and ruptured meningomyelocoele with queried hydrocephalus. Please kindly come and see and review on account of limp. Thank you. ...and the most hilarious aspect, and the major reason for this post, is the response of the receiving consultant. He replied: "a 24 hour child doesn't limp....DOCTOR