Memory lane No 1

Back in winter 1999, somewhere in a remote area, an old huge hospital stood grandly on top of a green-hill next to a 6 acre park.

A pimple-ridden medical student was all eager in doing his first ever ward round with a group of housemen, registrars and consultant. The team stopped by a patient who was looking rather breathless on oxygen support ventimask 24%.

"So Malaysian lad! What do you know about Chronic obstructive airway disease" Professor James Conaglen a 68 year old medical consultant took off his reading glasses and gave his infamous cold icy stare toward the rather innocently-looking medstudent.

With his clean crisp white coat the 6' 5' giant easily towered everybody else in the team physically & emotionally so to speak.

"Well sir, the disease is characterised by (bla bla) in which (yada yada) and last but not least, the treatment would include ( badabim bada bush)." in one confident single breath.

"Boy, humor me for a while here will ya, did you find yourself constipated this morning?" Conaglen grew a nasty-looking smirk at the corner of his lips.

"Err not really, why would you asked that?" the young man smelled something was bloody rotten in the state of Denmark.

(drum roll...)

"Because son, I think you are full of shit." He laughed away, savouring his golden moments.

Funny, after all these years. That's the only thing that I could remember from his teaching round (except of course the case of a 50 year old bloated lady who farted every 5 minutes).

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Btw folks, Earth Hour was here at 8.30pm last night. All the wards including the ICU have pledged its full support and were all excited in joining the mass effort in saving our world energy.

Or is that really what's going on? - any brave conspiracy theorist out there?

"Yippie kayeeeee mother-earth!!"