Here’s Kochi’s version

My first practical day started on 30th of October (this post is delayed because I had to grab pics from Zhi). We were a group of 3 – Me, Farah, Zhi.

Due to lack of transportation efficiency, we had to walk from the 5th corpus down the Pokrovka to the lecture, and then along Pokrovka again to go to 5th hospital.

Upon arrival to the 5th hospital, we were told to look for Professor Fadeev since Panova E.I. wasn’t responsible for the practicals (she didn’t know and wasn’t informed anything about the practicals). So we ran up level by level to look for Prof. Fadeev until the 5th floor, where a young doctor was waiting for us.

He brought us to the staffroom to put our bags and get changed.

The surprising thing was he asked us “What would you wanna do?”. I replied “Anything” because we didn’t know about the syllabus and plan for the practical. Then some noisy potentially aggresive horny nurses were asking for his help and he had to do the shit for 30 minutes. So we actually had enough time to have a photoshooting session.

Sitting for a long time

Waiting for the teacher

Ngehehehe

So after 30 minutes, the teacher brought us to see 2 patients. Both patients were admitted with heart disease. The first one even has a breast lump!

We ausculatated both patients and then asked them to proceed for echocardiography scan.

Echocardiogram is the ultrasound scanning of the heart, to see heart chambers, heart valves, heart wall thickness, blood ejection fraction etc. It’s like scanning a baby with ultrasound but there’s no baby inside. It’s simple as it seems, but not until you work it yourself.

First the teacher demonstrated the anomalies revealed in echo. Some explanations were given but too bad they’re all in russian. If they’re in english, that’d be best. I had to translate to Zhi because I’m better in russian, but I found it hard to understand some medical terms. The patients were really cooperative with us. So it’s beneficial to us coz we get to train how to perform an echocardiography.




Then we requested if we could do it on ourselves. The teacher allowed us to do it. So me and Zhi stripped off the shirts and started the scanning.

It was a brokeback mountain moment for 20 minutes but it’s really enjoyable, in a straight way. It’s really fun to see own’s heart beating normally. It’s exciting at the same time coz this was a lifetime experience.

And it all happened in this room……….

Kochi~