Anaesthesia Miscellaneous ^^

Hehehe a make up entry after u surviced thru my previous entry! =p
helooooo. Don’t stop reading just yet! This is the exciting bit, hehehe.
But whoopps, sorry. This is still about school ^^

One of the anaesthetist was a GP in Oz, who then changed his direction when he migrated to nz. He is sooo lovely, always smiling and ‘nodding’ re-assuring-ly even when I cant answer some of his quizzes. I can understand y he’s nice & friendly, he was a GP! =D

Another one had already decided to specialize in this area when he was a trainee intern doing Anaesthesia rotation (like wht im doing now!) because of the cruisy job description as I described above. He then had a chat with the Head of Department and I assume was seen as interested, and got offered to straight away pursuing the path when he was in his 2nd year. Wow that was easy.. He wasn’t indecisive like me, I guess >.< He had travel all around the world to retrieve NZ patients back to nz..

Eg to Bali after the Bali bombing, Bandar Acheh after tsunami, Pakistan after… something that I cant remember, etc etc.

That would be fun as well! but he has to stay alert and be ready whenever. On 1 occasion, he only got 15mins notice to go somewhere for.. 2 weeks. (an emergency case, and the plane is ready waiting for him- kellas gittew!).
Errrrr cant imagine myself in tht situation, how can I pack my luggage in 15mins?? Seal the whole wardrobe and ask for a helicopter to transfer it to the airport?? The whole plane would be mine anyway, so excess luggage wont be a problem? ^^”

Also, as this fella had been to Pakistan, he imagined that Bandar Acheh would be as ‘strict’ as in Pakistan (women wearing burkha, walks behind men etc), but he got shocked seeing ‘liberated’ women in Banda Acheh wearing skimpy clothes etc. Then we talks about the difference between cultures and religions, and the effect of modernization, the so-called liberalization etc. Pergh, I felt like participating in a forum.

Oh, we were on duty for a b*reast reduction surgery (b*-> I don’t want some perverts to google that complete word and end up in my blog -_-“ ). This lady was a size-G, wanted it to be reduced to size-c or D. FYI, G is maaassive. I don’t know such size exist, until I came here. huhu that poor lady suffered from back problem for years, and cant do much exercise (thus her weight keeps escalating up).

Facts.
Breast consists of fat tissues.
Big b* thus cant/stop exercise coz it’s painful and heavy and uncomfortable-> Gain weight -> excess fat production & store -> fats builds up usually around tummy, bum and b* -> bigGER b* . and the vicious cycle continues…..

More Facts
The current waiting list for b* reduction in NZ is 400 patients. Due to limitations of resources (money, man-power, specialists, theatre etc), this public hosp will only do 12-14 reduction surgeries every year.

That particular patient had been in the waiting list for 3-4 years before she finally gets her turn. Imagine the years of desperation and the disability she had gone through (that 4 years figure was only the time after she decided to get on the waiting list, but the disability surely didn’t just start to occur only 4 years ago). She was tearful when her bed was pushed into the theatre, huhu. I reckon a mixed feeling of relief and sad?
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Going to low-cost countries such as Thail*and or ?HK might be another options for these 400 patients, but the risks of infections and complications would be higher, as their level of safety & ‘sterility’ would not be formally assessed and approved. Otherwise it wont be cheap, rite??
During GP run, one of my classmate presented a patient who did Male-to-Female (Transvestite) Surgery – cant remember the correct term. We didn’t get any teaching on this area, so were quite fascinated and ‘eww-ing’ throughout the presentation. The balls *cough, excuse my word* were stuffed back inside the pelvic area, salvaged the p* skin and make the tube shorter (as still needed for peeing) etc! OMG.. how can someone come out with this technique and idea.. and who were the early ‘experimental victim??’.
Oh well, ppl do all sorts of things for satisfaction. Live life to the fullest? Ya rite.
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Aaaanyway…. The anaesthetist reckon this is a valuable surgery for me to see, as there wont be much b* reduction surgeries in Msia, compared from b* augmentation. He also voiced out his POV that he never really agreed with plastic surgeries (except for this kind of reduction), as he think that natural is always the best. Errr.. at that point, I think he was getting over-familiar with me. So I was like *lalalalaa~* dodging the comment aside -_-“. Adehh. Oh well, awkward silent does happened sometimes.

Better? ^^ alamak, when i scroll thru, just realized that this entry is soo long. opss. lama tak membebel, ini la akibatnye >.<