Chipotle is pronounced as Chee-Poht-Lay

I find that I am emotionally conflicted about making complaints.

On one hand, I am so annoyed that people are not doing their jobs properly, being inefficient and wasting resources. So I send in a complaint letter, worded professionally with overlays of sarcasm and frustration. But then- I get a reply, a sorry. Then my heart melts and I feel so bad about complaining. People are just trying to make a living, aren't they?

O&G is drawing to a close. After 2 weeks, I conclude that KKH is a medical student graveyard. Wearing the Medical Student tags just makes you invisible to doctors, nurses, sonographers. I find it peculiar how people go to so much effort to ignore you. I mean, doesn't it actually feel very awkward to have complete silence when there are 2 people in the room, or have someone stare at you in great hope that you might speak to/teach him/her. Is it that hard to say, I'm sorry but the clinic is rather busy today, I'll try to teach you when I can. Worse still, doctors who have all the time in the world but refuse to talk to you. No patients? Well, there are always iPhone games to pass time, time to surf Facebook, just no time to teach the medical student.

But but, I must not generalize. We've met very awesome people like Dr Timothy Lim and Dr Khoo who shower us with fun tutorials and chipotle fries. Through this posting, I've resolved to become a good clinical tutor. I used to really dislike juniors (hmm actually I still do), and find it very difficult to see myself as someone qualified to teach. But I realize that having good tutors, good role models make all that difference. It motivates you and gives you something to look forward to. It's not all that difficult to be nice! You don't have to be super intelligent and have all the answers, just a smile in the corridor or a hello in the clinic would suffice, really.

Time for a Yakult!