GENERAL APE
Goh Kiat Wee 23m, Singapore
School: TPS, HSCS, TJC, JJC, SP
Hobbies: swimming,badminton
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
It has been an tiring holidays instead of a rotting at home type.I have to go for attachment, work and some FYP stuff during this holidays.
Attachment
Spend the first week of my holidays doing my attachment at Tan Tock Seng Hospital.It was an enriching one althought we have to be there by 8.30am every morning.
Monday
Daniel and me was attached to the general clinic and orthoptics department. In the general clinic we were with Dr Shawn Goh. We get to see how ophthalmologist check the patient eyes and see patient with problems that we would only see in months at SPOC.At the orthoptics clinic we were with cathie who is an orthoptist in TTSH.We can see that she is very experienced and the way she do NPC with RAF rule is amazing she pushed the RAF rule so fast!We saw some kids with amblyopia and squint and we really feel for them for having such problem at such a young age.
Tuesday
We were schedule to go and observed how a LASIK is done.We are quite privilaged to be able to enter the Day Surgery Centre to see how a cataract extraction(by phaecoemulsification) and trabaculotomy is done.Not most of the classmate attached to other hospital is able to observe from inside the operating theatre.The fortunate one shouldbe those in TTSH,SNEC and Alexandra.
Wednesday
Today is the day we know wat is the GOD of EYES other than Prof Au yung from Alexandra.We were attached to the glaucoma clinic under Dr Wong Hon Tym. In the beginning, we were asked a lot of question by him and we really feel that he is trying to tell us we are not good enough.But as time pass,we realise he was sincered in teaching us and he even made the patient stay for a while to let us examine them with some method we did not learnt in school.He even took time after looking at all the patient to teach us what is important to look out for on the ONH.We were really impressed with his knowledge and expertise.We really learnt a lot from him. For those who want to see how good he is you all can look forward to the next NUOO where he will be giving a talk upon request by miss yeo who is also very much impressed with him.ThursdayWent to the laser and ultrasound clinic. The laser machine is just like any slip lamp with a laser that allows the doctor to shot into the patient's eye with the help of a high power plus lens. Ultrasound is split to A scan and Bscan.A scan are for people who will be doing cataract extraction to determine the amount of power the patient needs for their IOL.FridayAttached to the peads clinic and FFA.Patient is injected with flourescein and indocyan green so that the choroidal and retina vessel can be viewed from the machine.I would like to thanks Olivia who is a senior optometrist in TTSH for taking care of us.Looking forward to see you again in west coast clinic starting from next semester....Ok time to end here.I had a longer entry one on night cycling as well but somehow blogspot cocked up and i am too lazy to typed again.
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