Honest Opinion?

A Year 9, who has not yet started her GCSE's or A Levels

"Do you think my lisp will at all affect my chances of getting into university for medicine?"



Second day on TSR and I'm already becoming a celebrity.
Thrilled.

I'm sure.

What makes you believe that because I'm fourteen years old I don't know what I want to do with my life?

I find it rather patronizing.

I wanted to be a dancer or a photographer.

With age comes wisdom..

Also, doctors and vets are completely different, when you're older you'll need to decide which you want to do most. You have to care about the things you're going to help, rather than just think it looks fun, because it's not fun, it's fulfilling. It's also generally not exciting, it's nothing like Casualty or ER or the animal hospital programmes on the TV. Usually people are either "people" people, or "animal" people so be careful not to get those confused.

Casualty - last night the F2 committed suicide (the bits about the stress at least is true)

Saturday 9/2 9.05pm - Casualty
'Sex And Death' : Ruth, who is struck with grief and depression following last week's fatal misdiagnosis of a patient, is found hanging in halls of residence.
As the department tries to come to terms with what has happened, Harry reflects on what could have been done differently. He has Ruth's diary, and reads back over her last few months in the ED department. Her driving ambition to be a doctor is clear, but also her loneliness and increasing exhaustion.
Harry learns that Ruth had been shadowing a team in Histology, and had become close to the lead doctor - jokingly referring to him as "Dr Doom". However, she had misread his friendship and had found his rejection hard to take. At the same time, Ruth had also befriended a patient, Rachel, who passed away. Whilst trying to cope emotionally, Ruth was also doing long, hard shifts in the ED.
The team gather in the pub to drown their sorrows, and talk about life and death, their regrets and how they could have helped Ruth more.
Tess and Harry are still at work and, as Ruth lies in a coma, Harry says that they all let Ruth down and that the hospital let her down, too.

What?! No! Are there repeats on?

I can so see myself ending up like her and it's really scary.

yeah watched the catch up thing, it's only about a minute long though, does she survive?

isn't this the whole episode?? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008wzsf.shtml?q=casualty&go=Find+Programmes&scope=iplayersearch&start=1&version_pid=b008wzrx

Wernicke's Encephalopathy?
Yep, commonly the alcohol Q pops up red flags! Thiamine deficiency mediated, so other malnutrition too, off the top of my head. Haven't seen the episode though.