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Quotes that sound clinical but aren't clinical, a new series where I steal quotes from tv shows and make them sound inspirational and positive even when they aren't - part one

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Doctor: Your heart-rate is elevated

Nick Clark: You're a very attractive woman

My dear future patients, take notes.

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Update

Hello everyone! Don't worry, I didn't forget about this blog but, my training was delayed to middle of July. That's why I've been MIA and simply enjoying my vacation by doing extremely nothing.

See you in the next one!

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Chapter Two: 14 Days Before Practicum

Scrubs drama, I'm not certain about how things go around the globe but where I'm from, we are responsible for buying our own scrubs, our university specify the color but we are responsible for meeting their criteria, however, this criteria changed at least twenty times.

First it was plain black scrubs, then it was baby blue, afterwards it became light blue. that's 100$ of money wasted, 100$ worth of scrubs that I can't use at the moment because some bald guy in marketing keep changing his mind.

And the audacity that they want their logo printed on the scrub that I'll be paying for, buying for plenty of money and wearing even though I don't enjoy that the color imposed.

I know today's entry sounds whiny but I promise, it's out of frustration for a process that's been going on for over a month, a whole month of daily "mood-swings" by people who have no idea what being in a hospital is like.

They are taking something that's supposed to exciting and fun (which is the pre-practicum preparation period) and turning it into a stressful nightmare, sighs.

See you in the next one

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Chapter One: 15 Days Before Practicum

Today I went to the university to pay for my practicum, it took me around five minutes, however, a joyous event like that was ruined by no one other than Aaron.

Aaron is a guy that I started talking to two weeks ago. He was kind, sweet, funny and we clicked so well. For whole two weeks this guy's been flirting endlessly, showering me with attention, asking me out, telling me I'm pretty, asking about my daily activities. For two whole weeks, I'm under the impression that this guy might be someone I'm interested in dating.

However, the day before our "date" he came to me with the fact that he's going to get engaged. I was immediately alarmed, and I tried to cut the conversation short but he's persistent so I had to play along, my goal was to get out of this with the least damage possible.

I told him that I don't want to hangout with him because I'm uncomfortable now that I know he has a girlfriend, I told him that I don't want to see him but he kept insisting and insisting, and if you know one thing about men, men behave dramatically, and sometimes unexpectedly so I decided to go and see what he wanted.

I went for lunch, I was dressed casual, extremely exhausted, and sat there for three hours, smiling, playing pretend, and genuinely trying to get the day over with, by the time I was home, I felt completely like shit.

I forgot about him for a moment and focused on my scrubs order that just arrived, I tried to make plans to forget all about it but, he kept texting and texting. I started the ghosting process which is a lot of stress, trying to balance and find the perfect combination and time.

Meanwhile, I went to the doctor with my mom and the weirdest interaction happened. it was our turn to see the doctor, the interaction took less than ten minutes then her assistant led us through a backdoor and sent us to get the medicine from a pharmacy that's 180miles away.

There were five different pharmacies along the way that are closer, some patients were elderly but no, unless the medicine is brought from that specific pharmacy, that doctor would refuse it, the pharmacy person literally had to take photos as a proof.

I understand that some doctors make deals with pharmacies but they are usually embarrassed to admit it, they are embarrassed to be so public about it, this was something else! And the pharmacy sold the medicine overpriced so the doctor can sound humanitarian and humane for her low prices. It's purely insane!

See you in the next one.

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Introduction

Hey, my name is Tamara, and I'm a 27 years old Anesthesia Technology student, now you might ask, why 27? shouldn't you be 18 or something? Well, this is my second degree, I studied linguistics and now I'm studying Anesthesia Technology.

But that's not the point, this is a diary, a semi-daily updated diary, telling all about the insanity of my very first practicum that's around. the corner, some updates will be long, other times the updates will be short.

Will I be posting information about Anesthesia? Yes, I probably will, the medicinal part is un-avoided and important, it's also fun to discuss and connect with other people in the field to share expertise and adventures.

There are a lot of characters in this thing, I'm extremely excited to share them with you.

This is NOT a porn website, this is just a diary and a place to vent and talk about my practicum and experiences to document and genuinely express myself in a fun way.

Don't take this blog too seriously, it's about venting and having a laugh.

Profile images are AI generated.

Anyhoo, see you in the next few chapters!

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Chapters

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