Something new...

In the totally boring life of a medical student in exam period comes some insignificant news for you. Finished another exam today, Rheumatology (part of internal medicine)...

It was no great display of my knowledge since it was rather slim. After the big Micro test it was hard to get going again. But I decided to spare one day for this one, its not a big exam but still 70 topics and an oral exam. This will be the toughest exam period of my medical school so I just try to knock some of these small ones out without spending too much time.

Then again for those that dont know Rheumatology is a dead end medical field. Basically patients come in without fatal symptoms, and they have a variation of 5 diseases which are all related. Then you diagnose both clinically and by biochemical studies. Then you have an array of 4 drugs 1) NSAIDS (painkillers) 2) steroids 3) immune suppressors and 4) antibodies

With all four you can just hope to relieve the symptoms and in an eventful case slow the progression of diseases. And you usually never know what the cause of disease...


yee haw Rheumatology
róbert mar