Program Pendedahan Kerjaya Seorang Doktor

Day I

It started at around 9 am and finished at 4 pm.

We were all divided into 6 groups, I'm in Group 5.
So awesomely, the first thing on Group 5's agenda, was to visit the forensic ward.
Boy was that visit UNFORGETTABLE.

We went into the autopsy room after getting a tour around the place, and they were performing a postmortem on a 2 year old boy. We just saw them finish up though, they were stitching the boy's abdomen. He died a sudden death that boy. It was sad, to think about his parents and family, but other than that, I didn't feel much queasiness or nauseous or anything like that. After that, we went to a meeting room to look at a slide show about forensic science, and forensic cases the hospital covered. One case was a person who fell off a building. I am completely serious here, that person's brain and head looked like it had exploded, berkecai. There were shreds of flesh hanging from the top of what used to be a perfectly formed head. And, to top that off, the person's face split into two, right down the middle. No joke. They showed us what they use to cut the skulll, its a big drill basically. Though it has this vacuum technology to suck all the blood that comes out. They showed us some pictures of exhumation where the body had begun to decompose. All sorts of things, alcoholics, people who got hit by trains, and also those who had TB. So after the slide show, we went back to the autopsy room and they were performing a postmortem on a 22 year old lady who died of postpartum complications. That time we all saw them looking at the woman's insides. They cut her brain as well (sort of slices), to see whether there was any violence involved in her death, to search for impact points of blows to the head if any. And the forensic specialist showed us the woman's medulla oblongata. It's really not that big ;P

After that, we went to the obstetrics and gynecology department. Nothing much there, no live viewing of anything. They just showed us where the clinics are, and we saw some pregnant women, and we saw a newborn baby, very amazing :)

So it was a balanced day for all of us.

Death in the morning, Life in the afternoon.

That's a day of exposure alright.