Follow my story as I proceed through my final semester as a medical student to a junior doctor.

Although I am sure that most of the readers for this blog will be friends, a bit about myself first:

I am a (typical?) final year medical student at the University of Melbourne, who spends too much time doing non-medical things (ie. procrastinating), such as going out with friends, talking on the phone, listening to music, watching anime, reading books, planning overseas holidays and lining up for 90 million oz lotto on the morning of a 3 hour written O&G exam.

I have lived in Taipei, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, each location imparting to me what I would like to think of as a gift. Taipei imparted to me the gift of culture and language, Sydney one of dedication and structure, Adelaide one of encouragement, and Melbourne one of free thought and change.

How am I the way I am now? I don't really know, because during primary and secondary school, I have always been the antisocial, arrogant, book-reading, computer nerd, who would try to skip Physical Education. Perhaps some of this was a result of frequent moving and changing of schools during my childhood, perhaps I never liked school. Whatever the reason, all I remember is that after entering university, I changed totally, as if I had thrown away my previous self in exchange for a more sociable, more enlightened self.

I have no doubt that this change is constantly occurring, as I continue to become more aware of myself, others and this world.

oh yeah.. and that one question, Why did I choose medicine?
The honest answer would have to be, I thought doctors were cool and have always admired them from an early age.
Could I have done something else? Probably!
Do I still want to do medicine? Sure, but perhaps not for the same reasons as I started with. These reasons are still not totally clear to me yet, but all I know is I have things to offer, things I want to change!
Do I want to specialise? Most likely. I am interested in physicianship, and possibly paediatrics, but we'll see!