Following the ongoing GE, coupled with reading William Dalrymple's The Last Mughal, brought home some points about myself- that actually I really do like the humanities. I may have said this once or twice and I don't mind repeating myself here. I like the way how several seemingly innocuous incidents or issues can come together and cause groundbreaking changes in our world. There are some incidents like the sepoy mutiny, covered in The Last Mughal, that seem obsolete and long ago, yet the lessons remain relevant if we bother to identify them.
Now some disclaimers about Medicine. I still am a fan of it definitely,for if I weren't, I wouldn't have bothered going to SGH for tutorials on TWO Saturday mornings, much less write a FB note about what I've learnt from my April tutorials. It's just that Medicine is more of serious business for me, not something that I read at leisure while lying on the bed. It's something which has standards and guidelines and requirements. Something which can make me tired and worried at times.
It could be that Medicine would be a channel for me to apply whatever I like or know about the humanities. After all, we serve people and they have their psychosocial issues also. Many times the progression of disease is due to social rather than biological factors. Why did someone's cancer relapse? Because she did not follow up on chemo. Why not? No money. Frightened. Of course, there are a long list of causes, non medical of course, why she has no money and why she's frightened of Western medicine.
These few days I just feel like retreating into my shell, watching election videos, finishing the book. Maybe Oncology hasn't started to motivate me as much because I haven't seen the ward patients yet. Maybe because it's only been my first day, and what's more it was cut short by conjunctivitis
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