Hep B!

Today was Marija Farrugia's birthday. To be more precise, it was my friend's lucky birthday. She turned 20 i.e. she's officially no longer a teenager. We decided to start celebrating this glorious day bright and early...to get immunised against Hepatitis B. Well, you can't say that we don't get an A+ for originality. So, we met at Medical School (in St. Luke's Hospital) at 7:45 am. We were suppose to meet 15 minutes earlier but we both ran a little late. Plus, I had to buy ourselves two muffins; unfortunately, they came without the candles. Anyways, we found the infections control unit closed despite being told that we were suppose to find it open before 8am. That gave us a bit of time to eat our sweets and observe our surroundings were bugs don't just stop at the sink outside the infections control office, but they even reside over there. Amongst the many posters, there was one saying "germs travel". Believe me, these people have no clue how much germs travel in this God forsaken hospital.

At 8:20 am, we were 'warmly' greeted by the nurse, "Intom min intom?" (Who are you?) We explained that we were 2nd year medical students who were told to go take the Hep B injection on Tuesday if possible earlier than 8am. That triggered a series of grumbling and muttering because:
1) The nurse had lots of work to do and said that she didn't really have the time for us ("Ghax jien bhal llum ikolli xoghol iehor")
2) She claimed to be the only nurse on duty, even though there was another one of her colleagues with her the whole time ("U llum inzertajt qieghda wahdi")
3) We were suppose to have come between 10am - noon. Go figure that she was the exact same nurse who told us last Wednesday to come today earlier than 8am!

Then, we finally got our Hep B. She took a much longer time grumbling then getting us both immunised and fully eligible to start ward rounds next year (obviously grades permitting). Oh well, patient care in this country never ceases to amaze me. Sometimes I contemplate on the possibility of us, as future doctors, making history in the health care system. Even Jesus' second coming occurring next month sounds more probable...

Well, after St. Luke's off we went to University. I skived all the lectures to get some decent studying done. It turned out that the living anatomy session was actually good. I'll have to see if I can join some other group on Thursday to get the tutorial I was suppose to go to today. In the meantime, I must finish thorax!