Tony’s Anatomy-#8: Intern concerto!

Finally, the end of internship is coming. In review of this year as an intern doctor, it’s like a concerto, composed of 3 parts (fast, slow, and fast).  The first 4 months was like  a “Allergro”. Everything around you was fast! We came to a whole new medical center and tried to fit to new enviroment. Try to learn medical procedures we didn’t do befoe. Try to ask medical history of new patients who you never met before. And then at the same peroid, we were preparing for apply of next year’s resident doctors’ positions. Even you know you just came to a new beautiful city, no one had a mood to travel or fool around. Near December, most people will know where they would work as a resident doctor next year. Then the 5-8th months was like a “Lento”. Everything became slow!  As you know where you will go next year,  you’re starting to think when to leave and how long you have to wait especially if you were not in a hospital which you got a postion. And since you got adapted and familiar with mediccal procedures, every time you insert a Foley catheter you feel like doing a repetitive boring work. In the last 4 months, most people choose easy courses for their internship. However, life became very very fast as “Presto”!  Although our burden became less and easy, we felt we’re leaving in soon. We want to grasp more things like medical knowledge or procedure practice before we leave! We want to enjoy more happy moments with friends we meet here. We start to travel or gather together. Sometimes we even tried to talk with someone we never talk before. How do you feel if someone you just meet and found adorable and interesting is leaving soon ?   Quite sad, isn’t it? Iris shared a good movie story, “Harold and Maude”, to me. The 19-year-old boy loved and had dating with a 79-year-old woman in the story. When the woman’s life came to the end and the boy was panic of how to live without her, the woman said “ To love more!”.  Huge thanks to every friend and coleage ! Really hope our path will cross again in the furture.    

 

Tony @ Taichung