As long as I am willing to start, I can do anything and everything.
Yesterday I gave a talk for the hospital level continuous medical education session. I was warned ahead that I would be extremely discouraged as the attendance is usually low but that does not bother me because even if I have 1 audience, I will still deliver the talk. We should not deprive the minority who are enthusiastic and willing to learn just because the majority refuse to update/upgrade themselves. I was quite surprised that 23 people came as according to the attendance but only 19 did the pretest and 9 did the post test. I did enquire why was the number for post test was much lower and I think I could improve on my part as the form was not public and needed access. Some of them came late which explains why the pretest was lower than the attendance. I thought I would have stage fright, but somehow I did not this time. I think I know the reason why but it isn't a good reason. I think it was because I am having the feeling like I am the one eye Jack in the isle of blind. A little too full of myself I think but based on occupational hierarchy that was the truth, then again some juniors might be even more knowledgeable.
I was pretty irritated when the group of doctors walk in as one of them was talking non stop narrating an event and another 4 was listening intently, I tried to allow them to finish talking but it was so prolonged and they had no awareness that in a room of 23 people, their actions are easily visible and rude. Therefore I announce that I would appreciate if they would stop talking and pay attention to the talk which was on basic resuscitation. It took me 1 hour 8 minutes to finish the whole session thanks to people keep trickling in and not being on time causing a slight delay in the commencement of the pretest. All in all I guess it was a beneficial lecture as the scores for the posttest improved although only filled by half of the initial pretest participants. Someone suggested I use Kahoot! as it would be fun but the reason I used Google forms is to keep tract and as documentation purposes.
I couldn't help drop some advice at the end of the session to the group of young doctors as I can see not all of them are enthusiastic. The head nurse seems to be pleased with the advice and thanked me and invited me to give another talk next month on electrocardiogram. I think I am going to make it more interactive for the next session as I did see 2 person dozing off likely due to post prandial effects since it is a post lunch talk.
Somehow my blog feels so much like a diary now and I think it is time for me to just keep it private. I am not sure why am I getting readers from other countries but likely because of the title "Singapore" during one of the post. That seemed to be the most popular post and I think I only stated positive remarks of the neighboring red dot in that post. Well I should say it is a great country but dealing with Singaporean businessman can be a pain in the ass, they just cannot accept a win-win situation and only consider their part and are quite harsh too - "take it or leave it", that is their style. Well, in a way I am rooting for Thailand to have their ports improved and probably in the future the people from the little red dot can learn to tone down a bit as it would be others' turn to say "take it or leave it".
I doubt I have any regular readers other than Icy but Icy is someone in the past and regardless of whether he still reads or not it does not concern me anymore (cutting ties was one of the best things this year and I am thankful that he initiated it). Anyway, thank you to those who read and I hope you all don't make the same mistakes I did in life. I shall lock my blog before Winter Solstice! It does make me a little heavy hearted to privatize my blog as the numbers of people visiting from different countries made me felt like whatever I wrote had value. However it is for the best.
Let's all have a good start okay!
Keeping this as a memory. The countries that visited my blog for the past 12 months <3
Thank You for spending your time reading!
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