TSR Med Students' Society Part III

Plus of course, no matter how fascinating a lot of it might be (and I have to say I don't often think it is), most of the time there's not much you can do for many of your patients.

Anaesthetics and expecially intensive care medicine makes me far too happy.

.

Got sunburnt and now my ears feel like radiators.

Was reading a neuroscience blog and then came across this guy. Try and beat him for degrees / initials after his name

In a lecture we had a competition to see what lecturer in all of BL had the most letters after their name. I think we had a draw with two people having 31.

Depressingly true. Though it may well improve over the next few decades. For certain conditions anyway.

I know what you mean. My placement in anaesthetics was by far the most interesting.

Once wea actually understand what exactly is going on in that mess of neurones, the treatments will expode forward.

Same, I now realise that anaesthatists are physiology kings and without them intensive care would be non-existant and no major trauma team would run.

Neuroscience is ace by the way, psychiatry is not. As has been said though would I ever want to practice neurology? Probably not.

Got the freakin' man flu here, rubbish. So's the girlfriend (but lady flu of course), she just walked out of work because she thought she was feeling well enough to brave it, and they wouldn't let her have any water. ********s.

I loathe neuro.

Yep, that's exactly what someone I shadowed said about neurology... no matter how interesting it may be to study, practicising it isn't that great. He also started describing neurological examinations and how coma-inducingly boring they get.

Practicing neurology is awesome!
Finding strange things on neurological examination and eliciting weird and wonderful signs.

Ever seen a crossed reflex or having to talk to someone on the telephone because they cant communicate any other way. Stange weird and wonderful things after stroke/MS, etc.

I like neurorehabilitation as a sub-speciality.

Something like cardiology would soooooooo boring!!!

I kind of agree. Having a patient with anosognosia for paralysis is interesting as hell, but as a doctor, there is **** all you can do other than describe it in latin for them.

Disagree!! As a doctor pharmalogically there is little you can do.
Its a huge puzzle - yes you cant make it go away with drugs, but think broader. Theres always some answer/patch to a problem. Neurorehabilitation?

Yeah, true, but neurorehab is the neuropsychs job, surely?

Erm nope, not by a long long way.
Neurorehabilitation includes (not necessarily applicable to the condition you mentioned) - occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapy, social workers. Neurology/elderly care work (depends on age of patients) assessment of injury, progression, MDT work.

Why would it be the neuropsych's job? Im not with you (i may be missing something though!)

Neuropsych as in neuropsychologist, that is. And yes, of course all of the workers you have included also.

I didn't think neurologists were involved in that side as much?

You will probably know more than me about this - i think you said that you had a psychology degree along the line? Unless im remembering wrong. But arent neuropsychologists involved more in the pre-surgery, dementia, memory, cognitive, processing skills assessments?

Sir Nick?