After an OSCE where I was slightly flummoxed as to the problem, I recalled an episode of a non-hospital tv programme that just happened to have a doctor in it. I repeated the somewhat unorthodox answer that this tv doctor had given. My examiner was taken aback "interesting" he remarked "its possible, but not what we're looking for here" This allowed me the time to think through it and get the answer they did want.
Well, clearly I need to watch more hospital dramas, I thought to myself. Yet after trying them out I find I really don't get on with any of them... scrubs, house, casualty... that enticing afternoon 'doctors' show. I wonder if I am the only one to find them a cross between sally jessy rapheal and the most tedious lecture one has ever been in. They can't even be so bad that they are unintentionally funny, its a little hard to laugh at a character who has just been diagnosed with cancer. I'm sticking with textbooks.
Well, clearly I need to watch more hospital dramas, I thought to myself. Yet after trying them out I find I really don't get on with any of them... scrubs, house, casualty... that enticing afternoon 'doctors' show. I wonder if I am the only one to find them a cross between sally jessy rapheal and the most tedious lecture one has ever been in. They can't even be so bad that they are unintentionally funny, its a little hard to laugh at a character who has just been diagnosed with cancer. I'm sticking with textbooks.