catheter and miss marie

I finished another round of catheter teaching today. It was fun having to think which hand is sterile and which is not, how to manipulate things without having to touch them, holding penises at a 45 degree angle, holding the labial folds open. The models were certainly very patient with us. And there was hardly enough time to practice. It was bank holiday today. Miss Dorothy had to keep the Clinical Skills Center open for us. How kind of her.

We visited the geriatric hospital in Woodend in the afternoon. Note to self, bus 23 from Westburn gets you there!

The hospital for the elderly is amazing. Nothing like what we have in Malaysia. The same goes for the patients there. Ever ready to interact and help us learn. And Miss Marie was lovely. Made us feel so at home. And for the first time, murmurs were really easy to pick up and figure out. Just yesterday i had a chat with a friend in Manchester, telling her how cold the doctors were around here. Seems like there are nice warm ones here as well. That's good to know.

Not a bad day indeed...