first hands on experiece~

after four days having clinical placement in Lam wah ee hspital, i finally decide to blog about my experience

well, the first day was very boring as we(me n adrian) are still new and the physio there dare not let us do anything and all the patients are still not familliar with us. so i didnt do much except wander around and follow miss anne(the HOD of physiotherapy) around like her shadow and see how she treats and assess the patients. hehe

then the second day we're more familliar with the staff and soe of the in-patients we saw yesterday started to recognize us so they are more willing to talk us and trust us more~ hehe and we get to learn stuff we haven't learn in school. or different from school. hmm~

and right now is more like the patients who're teaching ( at least in my case cuz i still don't know anything) you'd be surprised how much the patients know.

but what i enjoy the most are those touching scenes i get to witness. like there's one i accidentally saw cuz i happened to be sitting there being bored. There's this lady who's a stroke patient and when she first got it she cant talk or walk. But now there is a big big improvement in her walking and she can talk abit abit. so when her sister came all the way from a far far away place, her sister tried to get her to say her name. and she did. her sister was so happy and dancing around and keep asking her to repeat. Its been so long she get to hear her sister say her name. and sudenly the lady said to her siser: wo ai ni ( i love you). gosh, i tell you i nearly cried. its so so touching. and i can really feel the shocked and happiness of the sister. its amazing..

ok there's still many many more but i'm abit lazy to type it here cuz this keyboard is tiring for me to type. haha. anyways, when they said this is a clinical placement, i expected to learn facts and methods of treatment and blah blah blah those we learn in school but applied on patients. i thought we will be taught by the physiotherapists there mostly. but what i didn't expect is i learned from the patients. I get to hear stuff from their points of view, how they feel about reatments..and of cuz the stories. they are older so they tend to have lots of nice stories and experience to share right?

so did i learn alot in this four days? yes. all about physiotherapy? not all. important? yes.
and its very unlikely that i ever forget since its my very first experience.