Sunday, April 10, 2011

A Grand Case Presentation


As I have written in my multiply account about our first ever Grand Case Presentation:

"February 4, 2009. An Orthopedic Case from Philippine General Hospital. Diagnosis: Multiple Lower Extremity Fracture secondary to Motor Vehicular Accident
Sorry. I didn't take much pictures because I am having a serious, colosal rush of Adrenaline. It is only after we were fried that I was able to touch my camera again.
It has been a long time since I faced a crowd and when I did, dammit, I almost fainted. Our efforts were all worth it. 87 is a reasonable high grade. My sister said that Ms olivar rarely gives a grade above 85, we must have done something that made her super happy. yahoo.
i dug a grave the night before, i thought i was going to die from hemorrhage where blood is oozing continuously from all the orifice of my body. it was not that bad after all!!!!!

congratz 3A!!!"

Well, If you're going to ask me, I never really liked grand case presentations because most of the time, a whole team is never really a whole team. There is a piece of soul that will not contribute a piece of knowledge to it. No offense, but its true, really. Sometimes they let the "case team" brew it all until they turned into charred human flesh. "But cha, were are not the case team". Yeah fine, you are not that team but simply put: just participating in the class' brain storming earns you the right to pick up that microphone and answer the panel's question. So, we good?

 I/we(if they ever did) befriended the bats of Manila (yes, there are bats at MNL) for staying up late doing the initial copy of the case. I slept at someone's apartment, bed, bed sheet, pillows. Sometimes, doing it makes me feel really embarrassed towards the owner because we are invading their humble home. I know they understand that everything is for academic purposes only and not for an ecstatic drug session. The least thing I can do is to say thank you, clean up our own mess and do well in the presentation.


If sleeping pattern is altered, then so is our/my diet. You see, every time we stay up late, it is expected that life-ending and brain shrinking foods will come to you. Diet is rich in sodium, monosodium glutamate, transfats, cholesterol, grease, fats and let us not forget, caffeine. It is just now that I realized, junk foods should not be eaten while studying. They drain the brain of its nutritional juice thereby leaving you, dumbfounded. If I were to eat a full meal consisting of rice, viand, dessert and drinks, it is necessary for me to stand up and buy another round of rice. It is eating but chewing never really existed because it feels like your adrenaline becomes your blood. It feels like everything should be in a hurry. After the meal, Lo and behold... a swine!


Pour me, al... caffeine. The amount of coffee consumed is dangerously high, enough to give you scary palpitations and for me, agitation just by seeing microscopic holes in the case. If anyone from the team will be admitted in a hospital and would require to do a venipuncture, I am quite sure that coffee, not blood, will back flow to the tubes.

This is the one thing I hate the most: a sudden change in my aesthetic assets. My forehead is the best site of pimples. Pimples, I am referring to the juicy ones that explodes and squirts whitish pus. Yum! And don't forget those eye bags. You are recently recovering from an individual-case-study-induced eye bags then suddenly there is the grand case presentation. This means another batch of droopy, blackish bags under my eyes. Get your concealers ready because its going to be nasty.

Reservations and letters of request, I hate it too. Reserve this and that! Make a letter for him or her so that we can chuva this and that. Sometimes, all is going well with the case but then there would be a sudden halt or things would stumble upon a failure of request due to some reasons. Logistics team would then be crazy and would now formulate plan B. If it works, good, if not, then its time to kill the people who will be using the conference room at the same date. If there is a grand case presentation, for the presenters, it is a matter of life and death.

No matter how well made your case is, the panel would always see a flaw. Consult the best Doctor or Nurse in the world, your jaw will drop because the panel, as keen as they can be, will see something not pleasing in the eye. It is scary but it is quite expected. But, you know, it pays to have your case polished and well made, trust me.

Grand Case Presentation, I survived it in college. In real life, I will surely do. Getting fried without cooking oil is a life lesson. Do it well, do your best.

*Ms. Cervales. Explain the rationale of your NCP in page 88?

Patay tayo diyan!

Nagmamahal,
Cha