Internal Medicine exam completed

I had my Internal Medicine today, at the 2nd Department of Internal Medicine. My examiner was Professor Sreter. She is very nice, but also strict and very busy. We had to wait for 45 minutes, because her office waiting room was crowded with patients and she had to do a lecture before the exam. Anyway, [...]

You drink the drink, you swallow the stink…or something like that

I got a call from the ambulance personell the other day. A patient was found unconcious in his home among liquor and tablets from the bathroom cabinet. Turned out he had taken a handfull of Zopiclone (narcoleptic), Dispril (Asprin) and Ibux (Ibuprofen) and swallowed it down with half a liter of Jaegermeister (just like Unicum, [...]

From the pit to paper slave

During the first two weeks I was in “the pit” – the place where patients are accepted to the hospital and split into surgical and internal medicine. The long days and even longer nights were very helpful, but they do take their toll. Since last week I’ve been moved from the pit to the actual [...]

First day off from work – short report thus far

I’ve spent the last two weeks working as a temp at the regional hospital in Elverum. The internal medicine rotation period is nine weeks. The hospital (together with its sister hospital in Hamar) covers a population of more than 120.000 people (for the areas pulmonology, nephrology including dialysis, and specialized cardiology the hospital caters to [...]