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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Pharm..huh?!?...ology

Dad's a pharmacology Professor.


My elder sister's about to complete her Pharm-d course...

So pharma's supposed to be in my genes. 'It's supposed to be etched on every rbc of mine...' (Quote: Lucknawi Baaaig ;p)

Yet Pharma for me is what ketchup is for tea (Nay! we don't mix together!)
The disgusting tea/ketch mix up there is in all respects
 a perfect symbolism of my brain n the drugs stored in them. Period.
How did generations of students memorise this stuff I wonder as I stare down on my lippin...
How can docs learn ALL those drug names without going gaga... I ponder on as it rains outside...
Why couldn't we have simpler drug names .. I constantly think.. as I dig my teeth into lunch....

Amused M: Why can't I memorise pharma ?
Why?? WhYY?? WHYYY????!! 

I mean antipsychotics: chloropromazine, thiaridazine... UGH who came up with those? Why couldn't they simply be 'Crazy drug1' 'Crazy drug2'???

So CNS test... it's the drug names that're killers .. can never remember whether the drug name ends with -dine or -dole or-zine or if started with chlor or chloro...

Tough.

I've always idealised docs as having drug names neatly stored in their grey cells.... always ready to reel off how a drug acts, what adverse effects it can cause, it's contraindications... How is that possible? I remember all this the exam day and it'll be a miracle...

Maybe I'm watching too much House. Actually I am.. hmmm



...No Doctor House.. def not me!! :p

So I guess it's confirm then. I'm mutated. By all hereditary probabilities I should be a whiz-kid at pharma.
But no.. Im struggling to put two parts of every drug name together.. : /

I guess it'd take hours for me to recall drug names for a prescription. My poor patients better bring their knitting needles... they'd have a long wait if I'm to write those drug names.

5 comments:

  1. hahahahha u rock!...;p...aala
    hw abt teachng patients hw to play 'fu'ball'...knittng seems non you-ish :p

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  2. Out of curiosity and self-amusement, which drug can I get off the shelf that gives the highest High. :D

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  3. Buahahahahaha Amused ! You made me laugh out loud with the suggestion of Crazy drug 1 crazy drug 2 ! :p :p :p

    And i agree it should be so :-/

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  4. HA!!!!!!!! all the Drs i've ever been to...which really isn't that many times considering how OLD i am...i've seen them look stuff up in BOOKS!! they don't remember everything! you just have to do it for now to pass the tests...then throw it outa your head...you'll remember stuff after you get OUT THERE...into the REAL world...repetition...repetition...repeti.... :)

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  5. @mimi hahahahahahaaa :D :D thankssssssss girl for commenting!!! :) yeaah I remember... at the trip right :P

    @Sadaf THankS for commenting SO regularly :D

    Lauraaaaa GREAAAT to hear from you, sorry I havent gotten time to visit your place but surely will ASAP... REALLY??!! and to think I let med dramas get to me :P wow that's a relief.. :DD thanksssss Laura :)

    :O WOW an anonymous comment!! That's a first!! bit weird :P... anyway, the 'highest high'... well my brain has no idea and umm I'd rather NOT look that one up!

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