Hanging with Benton, Ross and Carter

For old times sake I've been hanging out with the E.R boys tonight. Ive got a bug that means I'm really snotty in one nostril (green) and have a mucus-sy cough and I'm tired. Its SSC week. what is an SSC you ask- Ive realised medics lives are entirely full of code- pbl, ssc, etc, lol....
SSC is the 'Student Selected Component'..i think that name is some kind of legal clause that means when you complain about it they remind you that you chose to do it in the first place...that's right STUDENT selected. Its a 15 page essay on a title you have chosen and been allocated. I 'beat' 20 people to what i thought would be a brilliant idea to look at 'Should Euthanasia be legalised in the UK?'...what a barrel-ful of weasels that is...I'm looking at morals and law and legal precedents and human rights and self-determination and autonomy and the 6 different types of Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide and normal assisted suicide and the law in Belgium and in the Netherlands and religion and oh my god I'm so in too deep. but that's right folks, i CHOSE IT.
the main drag is the referencing. do i reference a person who has paraphrased something from an original piece of research if i have paraphrased their interpretation? or do i reference the original work?
Can i just write 'YES' in 172 font and submit that instead?
So anyway we have a couple of weeks off normal lectures and seminars to do this and is horrific.id rather be in at 9am every day listening to detailed accounts of rectal prolapse than i would being able to lie in and knowing that i have to get up and face 'Euthanasia & The Law, Dying with dignity' (i dint have to reference that because i made it up but you get the gist)
So anyway its going alright and what i was really going to write about is that I'm annoyed because my housemate Paul has gone out for dinner.
This is annoying because he has my Grey's Anatomy Season 2 Box set in his room. What is even more annoying is that I gave it to him so i couldn't watch it because i have become absolutely addicted to it and it has taken away all my productivity and my perception of what working in a hospital is really going to be like!!! so anyway this evening i went old school because Paul didn't expect me to turn back to clooney and wyle now did he?!?! mwahahaaaa. and I'm ill so I'm allowed.
The thing i love more than anything in these drama series (more than the faces of noah wyle and the cloonster and dr mcdreamy)is the fact that I'm actually beginning to understand what they re on about.
I know what a bilateral haemothorax is. And what a pulse ox measures. what cyanosed is. i know that tachycardia is an accelerated heart rate, i know what a normal BP should be (hell if you gave me a sphygmomanometer and a stethoscope i could measure it myself. i know about angioplasty and i know about beta-blockers.
It is so satisfying to have these words no longer drift by your subconscious but actually have your brain grab them out of the air and process them and start to think about their significance within what is being presented to you.
This is a medical code even med students don't comprehend fully and its nice to be slowly cracking it.

Now I'm going back to ER in the hope that I'll be feeling better in the morning ready to be Euthanised once more...