1 down, 2 to go

With almost suspicious timing, the former deputy-PM has released a video that casts the current chief judge and a prominent lawyer in rather bad (read : illegal/unethical) lighting. It serves to highlight the lack of exclusivity between the judiciary and the executive, but I doubt anything much will come out of it. The judge will serve out his remaining few weeks and retire with his pension. And the lawyer probably already has enough cash to live out the remaining years of his life in the Cayman Islands.

And the usual bleating by the cemerlang and terbilang folks are coming to fore. The latest involves the same intellectual who's been responsible for numerous other mind-numbing comments and goes along the line of 'the whistleblower will be protected - his identity will be safe and if need be, we will provide plastic surgery' (why would anyone do that?). And this was followed by the rather lame 'if he doesn't identify himself, then there's obviously no case'.

And obviously, the fact that our elite police force is currently in court over some rather mercenary activities is going to convince Mr Whistleblower that he'll be in good hands. And being the lawyer that he is, the good minister has probably not thought about the fact that all he really needs to do is check the authenticity of the tape to have a case. I mean, if you have a dead body and a murder weapon, you go by the facts of the case right? You don't say that there's no case just because there might be no witnesses.

Moving on...

Last week was rather crap, as I was based on the cardiothoracic ward. The reason it's crap is 'cause you spend lost hours on pointless ward rounds and surgical clerkings during which you act as a scribe. And that's about it. But it's only for a week though, and there are some advantages to it. Like on Friday for instance, I was able to participate in a practical session on porcine hearts that allowed me to test my surgical skills in inserting an artificial valve as well as a coronary bypass. It was good fun, despite the expected 'everyone, look at the physician trying to suture!' comment by one of the SpRs. And it just highlighted how difficult the whole procedure is to me and the kind of fine motor dexterity that's needed to do a good job.

This week's my fav though - an entire week of being attached to CCU. Which means I get to see weird and wonderful cases (saw my first Janeway lesion the other day, which was definitely anti-climatic) and get my hands on the management of the sickies. Highlight of the day was this patient who was in florid pulmonary oedema. Actually, the highlight was getting to know that I had passed my exam. So now I can look forward to the weekend with an even bigger smile on my face.