Yet another day in NUS

Today is Monday, 16th Jan, 2005. Woke up at 0600 hours. Very groggy. First thing to do was to turn on the laptop, then ate my carbamazepine. Haven't brushed teeth yet.

Yep. Cos of the crazy (aptly named) Prof Seow, Dr Seow or what, cos he is not an assistant professor, about 40-50 pharmacy people had to get up at 0600 hours TODAY to bid for their precious slots for LSM practical.

Yes, because Junice told all the pharmacy people sometime before this that there was to be only one LSM practical slot, which is wednesday. So everyone happily scheduled their wednesday afternoons for the slot. Then Seow said that there were two, and the thing was that you can't fit all the pharmacy people into one slot.

Hence the mad rush by pharmacists to take the same practical slot with their friends. reminds u of 1000 people camping outside a departmental store offering freebies to the first x people, the stampede under way.

I thought of waking up at 0615 since the night before i slept quite late, around 1am plus. Well luckily i didn't, cos by that time more than half of the desired slots had already been taken. Imagine: 15 slots gone for every 5 minutes.

Then some people of course didn't get their slots. Cos they woken up too late. So fingers started to point around, and it came back to poor Junice... well, which referred the fault back to the NUS authorities. well i guess it's more of the management's fault but then the tai ji goes on... poor gal man, gets arrowed here and there. (well typical NS shit.)

Came 10am for pharmacy prac lecture. as usual its the quiet lecturer from National Cancer Centre which words i can't really hear cos i was sitting at the back and the fella never even did a mike test, or worse still she didn't on the mike and half the time i was "wtf is the lady talking about" especially those bits which i had wanted to know, like the ethics, or how much she earns, or about the part on euthanasia.

So i, CH, jev, and zw were laughing along as we recalled days of army "ethics" as she went through the 12 ethics of a pharmacist.

What we talked: .

Btw, only one army ethic: Do it, but don't get caught. -Anon.
Another army ethic: when in doubt, reach for the referral letter. -anon.

Our code of ethics

1. A Pharmacist shall regard the health of the patient as his first consideration.

2. A Pharmacist shall strive to achieve and maintain the highest standard of professional services provided for the public.

3. A Pharmacist shall respect the trust and confidentiality of his professional relationship with the patient

4. A Pharmacist shall always reinforce the confidence and trust placed in his colleagues by patients.

5. A Pharmacist shall always assist his colleagues and other health professionals, when called upon for advice or help

6. A Pharmacist shall maintain effective professional relationships with his colleagues and other health professionals, and pay due regard to their opinions and achievements.

7. A Pharmacist shall refrain from publicly criticising his colleagues and members of other health professions (but can criticise other professions??)

8. A Pharmacist shall refrain from attracting clientele to himself and away from his colleagues, other than by the establishment of a sound professional reputation

9. A Pharmacist shall observe the laws relevant to the practice of his profession at all times and must always dissociate himself from fraudulent and unethical practices.

10. A Pharmacist shall concern himself with the facilities and methods of educating and training future practitioners.

11. A Pharmacist shall keep abreast of the progress of pharmaceutical knowledge in order to maintain the highest standard of professional competence.

12. A Pharmacist shall refrain from accepting conditions of service which do not ensure his professional independence.

PHARMACY!!! (punch hand in air)

DRINK!!!! glugglugluglugluglugluglug...

ps. why the rules apply to guys only?! not fair...