Thursday, May 18, 2006

Prizes and pregnancies

Today I went up to London, to a medical student prize presentation and lecture at the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (no, I hadn’t won a prize – this is me we’re talking about, your common or garden student, who hasn’t even started their SSM essay on Religion due in 5 weeks…). The lecture was given by Professor Lord Robert Winston, who is a LEGEND. His talk was excellent, though a little too heavy on his research work instead of his clinical practice, but still very interesting and informative. The 6 student presentations, based on their prize winning projects were all extremely interesting. I was very impressed, and a bit sad, because that’s never going to be me. I am no researcher!

It was lovely to see Mirabelle and Jenna, who came down from Birmingham to go to it. I met them in Oxford Street, shopping, after rushing in from straight. It was very depressing, asthey’d obviously had a lovely day and I’d been working.

Yes, the work is not brilliant. The people are very friendly, but filing is just not my thing! I’m working as a clerical assistant in a local general hospital physiotherapy department, and I like being on reception, answering phones and booking in patients, and I don’t even mind sorting referral letters or photocopying. What I do hate is alphabetising and boxing discharge notes from 1998 onwards…

On a more positive note, the cat is probably pregnant, which is just so exciting! We’re taking her to the vet tomorrow for confirmation of our suspicions…

1 comment:

Marysienka said...

Aaah hearing about London, Birmingham, Oxford streeet, I wish I was there! Someday, someday...

I'm not into research that much either, but we have the opportunity to work w/ researchers during summer and it pays ++++ (plus it gives 3 optional credits). I know someone who is going down in the States to present the research. I'm thinking of applying for next summer, seeing that doing medicine here in town (parents) seems to be an impossible thing grrrr.