Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

It was a very interesting day today as we learn more about child psychiatric illness especially on Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity disorders. It commonly been noticed before the age of 8 after kindergarten start and it can give up all the spectrums of the disease ranging from hyperactivity, inattention and impulsivity of a child.

Hyperactivity- the child wouldn't be able to sit still and will continue running and jumping around despite being scolded by the parents.

Inattention - the child wouldn't be able to focus or remember what have been said neither do they performed well academically.

Impulsitivity - Child have an sudden aggressiveness such as pushing the other children suddenly and throw tantrums easily on small matter.

However, a normal child might be showing off all the behaviors above; so it's only when all the behavior above actually affecting the function of the child in their learning or speech only then we consider giving treatment to the children.

Results...

Well, result for O&G posting came out today and what i have achieved was not too satisfactory for me as i just passed the exam and didn't perform very well.. For sure, i missed out something during the interview session with the patient and definitely, i lost a lot of marks from there.

Anyway, test is just being a test. Hopefully i will be able to perform better in the near future.

second day

there was a lot more new term introduced today in the psychiatric discussion which i think i need more time in adjusting in it as i am still not sure of which term is to be used for certain condition. Anyway, hope that i will get adjusted to it soon.

Psychiatry posting

starting from this week we are all posted in psychiatry ward to learn psychiatric illnesses. It's actually a totally different posting and many other aspect from Obstetric posting where we feel more hectic and misearable(so called miserable when we actually need to cover ward). haha

On the first day itself, we are not so tense and we feel much more comfortable in psychiatry. though we need to really learn about the history taking of psychiatry posting, it's more or less basic common stuffs that we need to get from the patients, just a bit more details in few aspect. We need to follow up the patient throughout the 5 weeks posting as they are all "long-staying" patients in the ward, which mean they need more time to be cured or incurable basically. When we visited the psychiatric ward, it's basically 2 different ward between the female and male ward. Male patients look a bit more scary than the female patients as they all are wondering around in the ward and we are not supposed to go inside, rather interview them outside with supervision from the staffs around.

Well, i think most of us are quite curious on what will be the experiences when we actually have our contact with the psychiatric patients. But, i think it will be a real memorable one.

Earning money

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As We Grow

As we grow up, we tend to forgot whatever dreams that he had since childhood. The older we get, the more we actually come to realize that we have no more dream, those naïve but inspirational dreams….

As for me, I used to also have a lot of dreams, but time, No! Not time, but myself who has given up all those dreams. Undoubtedly, dreams does change or forgotten along the path of our life.

Childhood :

1) To be a GREAT GREAT DOCTOR- and I mean CURATIVE, COMPASSIONATE, INSPIRATIONAL DOCTOR.

2) To learn exclusive MARTIAL ART, including JUDO (my favourite-yellow belt<2^nd lowest rank>) and maybe KARATE (brown belt only).

I used to so-called fight/compete with my friends last time. Haha, so childish of me that I soon realized there are so much more for me to learn.

3) To own a house with a HUGE GARDEN and a MODERATE POND with a lot of fish. Not to forget, I wanted to design a SPECIAL FISH AQUARIUM within the house where all the fish can swim throughout the house.

4) To learn all about TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE & HYPNOSIS.

I was so amazed by the way how those “*singseh” managed to diagnose any disease just by feeling the pulse and how a person can be hypnotized without even letting a person knowing it.

*Singseh- Chinese doctor in olden day

Another grey day of my life…

Looking and seeing the pain & suffering that my grandma (pancreatic Cancer since 2 months ago) got to go through, I am wondering is there anything that I can do?

Or, maybe there is something , just something to relief her pain?

All my aunt , mum and uncle are trying all sorts of so-called “complementary medicine ” ranging from some direct sales(water filter & nutritional products), complex Chinese complementary herbal medicine and oilments which claim might be a cure for cancer. Hmm, I really doubt if those really work? And, I am also wondering ; is that what she wanted?

It’s not going to be something nice nor tolerable to actually eat dozen of medicine every single day for a long period of time, as if the rice we are eating each day. Actually, the doctors have been prescribing morphine to my grandma, since she really couldn’t tolerate the pain and was keep on demanding for panadol(paracetamol) each alternate hour even at night. However, it’s seems that it doesn’t works on her and she claim that paracetamol helps her more.. Hmm, I still need to find out the answer for this. Therefore, my relatives are all searching for something to relieve the pain and probably “curing” the disease. But, how much is the efficacy and truth? I really want to know!!!!!!!

On the other hand, It Is The Hope That Keep Human On-Going, Isn’t It? I just cant tell them it’s not going to work as a medical student, that my grandma wouldn’t has the chance to live on. And, it’s also at that moment I found myself trapped, trapped in the realism of this world. I know there is no way that me or any other people to run away from it, but I just hope 1 day I will be able to understand it.