Cardio(s)..

Yay! going home soon, very very soon :) :) !!

London is not too bad these days

Work was great..not in the term that i did too many useful things really, but the colleagues been wonderful, and i've discovered LOADS of new eating places that are scattered outside central London thanks to Carina :)

plus the long lunch breaks // shopping in sloane street..

and the usual discussion of korean dramas.. with the occasional real work to do with the hearts.

After working there for awhile, i'm getting more used to the term of..err.. death. Well, lets see..a typical day starts usually with reading tons of post-mortem (a.k.a reports they made after you died) and autopsy reports. Then continued with looking at heart samples or photos of hearts from various babies or childrens.. some with notes attached that it needs to be returned to the body somtime soon. Then most of the day will be filled with filing all those hearts with different defects into the suitable categories and coding them basically. So.. for example, lines like these are very commonly found.. 'died at ..am/pm', 'unable to resuscitate', 'died while going to the bathroom'..or even more tragic 'collapsed on the street'.. etc.

Sometimes I tried putting myself in the shoes of the people who actually knows these children.. their parents, their friends. They must be miserable. Whilst as doctors, these are all daily cases for them to treat.. say, if you are a banker, then you deal with you client's money..a hairdresser deals with hairs, a teacher deals with different students, well..a cardiologist deals with hearts and someone's life literally. A pretty heavy responsibility.. obviously.