Category Archives: Second Year

Stories from the second year of medical school

Everybody Lies

Posted on December 20, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

I’d like to apologise for the long gap in posts, my workload suddenly trebled overnight as exams approached and in order to continue being a medical student and being able to post at all I thought I should probably try … Continue reading →

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Week 6: Staring Death in the Face

Posted on October 10, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

Nobody ever tells you how hard it is to look a patient in the eye when you know that they’re going to die. This is especially hard when the patient hasn’t yet come to that conclusion. Trying to keep a … Continue reading →

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Dr Google

Posted on October 7, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

I was going to write something political tonight, in fact I did write a political thing, but then decided I didn’t really know what I was talking about so I scrapped it. So, instead I’m going to talk about self-diagnosis … Continue reading →

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Week 5 – How to stereotype your whole class

Posted on October 4, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

Medical school attracts all sorts of people, it’s one of the real strengths of the profession, that it appeals to people from every walk of life. I thought I’d run through a few of the stereotypical “types” of people that … Continue reading →

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Week 5 – How to wash your hands

Posted on October 2, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

Today, purely by chance, I saw two patients with C.Diff. Clostriudium Difficile (C.Diff. to it’s friends..aka everyone but microbiologists) is a part of your normal gut flora, the trillions of bacterial cells that line your intestines. In most people it … Continue reading →

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End of Week 4 – How to laugh

Posted on September 26, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

Medicine is a serious subject. You spend the vast majority of your day dealing with life and death, or in my case, learning about horrible things which can kill you and your friends. Or at least that’s what you tell … Continue reading →

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Week 4- How to piss off a nurse.

Posted on September 24, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

“Can I have some help in here?!” It’s something you never want to hear, especially as a medical student walking out of the hospital after a long day. But today as I was walking out of the SAU (Surgical Assessment … Continue reading →

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End of week 3 – Burnout

Posted on September 21, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

Part of me can’t believe that I have been back at uni for 3 weeks already,  but when I sit down and think about it; the second of September feels like it was a very long time ago. Already the … Continue reading →

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Week 3 – How to solve the A&E Crisis

Posted on September 17, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

Firstly, I just got quite a shock when I clicked on my stats page… whoever has been reading all of my posts in the last 2 hours, you’ve managed to significantly inflate my ego. Thanks. So, today I’m going to … Continue reading →

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How UK medical school works

Posted on September 16, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

I was struggling for inspiration as to what to write this weekend, really did not have a clue. Fortunately twitter came to my rescue. A conversation with an American Medical student/blogger (read her blog here) resulted in us both admitting … Continue reading →

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