Infectious Diseases Symposium day 1

Today got up for the surgical grand round on superficial vascular disorders and then attended the medical grand rounds on some difficult diagnosis of Hepatitis B. Our group also visited Prof Gregory Cheng to give him our belated Chinese New Year Present.

In the afternoon I attended a Infectious Diseases Symposium, hosted by the Centre of Emerging Infectious Dzs of my university. The speaker are very prestigious and the talks are quite interesting. It not so much on the management of specific dzs but rather the poliitcal and epidemiological aspect of disease. Most interstingly is how much time some top notch geneticists, epidemiologists, economists and politicians spent on studying chickens. Half of the time spent on how we should treat our chickens, how we should vaccinate them and so on.

Some interesting facts concerning chickens I got from these talks:
1)Chicken and other poultries is our main source of flu virus (we all know that)
2)It is very crucial for geneticists to trace the tracks of infection of flu virus among diff spieces and groups of chicken, as they do in human...very important
3)It is also very important for the geneticists and microbiologists to be able to reduce the harmful effect of flu virus in chicken, so that their eggs can survive well when infected with flu (that is because we culture our vaccines in chick eggs, so we must make sure the eggs can survive and grow virus without being destroyed by the virus)
4)It is also important to control the spread of flu within chicken farms, and across the borders. Here we can see alot of similarities between how they treat chicken like men and how they treat men like chickens.



Infectious Diseases Symposium Poster 

Fun Run 2005

Each year, the faculty of Medicine will organise a 5-6 Km run from Prince of Wales Hospital to Chung Chi College in CUHK. I have participated in this even for 2 years. Sometimes the faculty of medicine will organise a Happy Run with the New Asia College, but that have not happened for 2 years already.



We took a picture with Prof Fok (left most), Our dean and also the Dean of Chung Chi College at the finishing line. It was quite cold that day. Eddie Koo (2nd from left) came in 6th and Chiu Yi also came in 6th.. 

NA College graduation

Today is the Photo taking day for the graduates of the New Asia College. The weather is not exactly very good but we had a great time. So I would just share some photo here. Promptly after these photos were taken, I was assaulted by Champaigns by my classmates....


A moment before cutting the poor suckling pig 


The Suckling pig is now really very dead.... 


This is Mr Suckling pig before he meets his final death 
This is peter and I with Amy from the medical canteen... 
This is (from the left) Ruby, Ken, Peter, Chiu Yi and I. 
Shannon and Me....blurry 
From the Left, Me, Larry, Chiu Yi and Peter ( my flower is dropping so I was holding on to it.) 

From the Left, Loretta, Me and Peter Yip ( we have 2 Peters in the Class) 

Day 2 in NDH

Well today is the 2nd day we spent in NDH....we skipped school all this while.... Anyway.. didnt do much... attended one tutorial on colorectal surgery and then presented 3 cases during the afternoon grandround.....boring

1st Day in North District Hospital

Today is the start of my North District Hospital Surgical Rotation. NDH is, as the name implies, in the northern part of Hong Kong. I will be spending 4 weeks here learning general Surgery.

One thing about NDH is that they have very good food in the staff canteen.


Here you can see some hot and juice chicken drum sticks.....with honey sauce dripping from them.



Here you can the canteen staff Barbequeing the Steaks...with the smells of haven...superb



Here is what I got at the end. A baked rice with mixed vegetable and cheese, a sesame cheese cake, a lemonade, a cream of mushroom.




Just for contrast, this the kind of food an elderly patient had in the hospital...quite bad...

Medical Grand Round

Today's Medical Grand Round was supposed on some new development in haematology...but Prof Joseph Sung decided to take over the Grand Round and shared with us what he learnt from visiting the now Tsunami-crippled Phuket Island. There is a lot of photos and a lot first hand experience. He also took the chance the discuss about the implications of natural disasters on healthcare workers. Quite interesting.

When was the last time you do things for the first time?

What we did today,

Strode around the street in white coats and scrubs.....


Performed Colonoscopy for the 1st time with Prof Joseph Sung while listening to Celine Dion....

This is Kelvin... he got the hang of colonoscopy very quickily



This is Viola, she had some problem controlling the scope...



This is Shannon... she is good.. (for a girl at least.>^o^<.)....and she managed to navigate in a patient with sub-par bowel preparation..(i.e. a lot of faeces still in the colon

And behold the chinese edition of the Oxford Handbook of medicine..(still in 3rd ed), next to it is my newest 6th ed....hahah