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I'm really excited about this. I hope to see you and talk to you in The Karma Club soon. Enjoy the rest of the vlog. Today is one of those mornings where I have enough time to grab a coffee before I get on the bus, which is great because it makes that morning commute ever so much more enjoyable. So today I don't have regular placement on the voids or on the clinic. We actually have a full day of simulation. Now, we don't actually know what it's on specifically, but usually this involves things like AT scenarios, some clinical skills, maybe some history-taking and discussion of credentials. So I'm actually going to head straight to the clinical skills lab and I'll see you guys there. That is all of our simulation training done. I think it went quite well. We had like a variety of scenarios. We had DKA, which is the one that I had, diabetic ketoacidosis. We had pulmonary embolisms. We had cardiac arrests and one more that I'm not thinking of. Oh yeah, infective exacerbations of COPD. So yeah, we took interns and pairs to go through and do each one of these simulations. Go to assess the patient, take a brief history from them and then do an A to E examination. So looking from head to toe through airway, breathing, circulation, disability and exposure and everything else. We'll catch up with you in a bit. So ever since our big exams in fourth year, I really haven't done that much studying for medicine. Pretty much besides that one hour study with me that you guys saw me upload the other week. And so now what I'm trying to do is for one hour after every day that I'm on placement, sitting down in the library, going through some practice questions, doing some reading of my notes, just to sort of refresh my memory and keep everything at the top of my head. So when I get asked about things on the ward rounds, the consultants are grilling me. I actually remember everything that I need to remember. So yeah, that's what I'm here for. Got a coffee, got my iPad, I'm just gonna do it one hour. That's definitely enough medicine for me in one day. I'm just waiting for the bus now to start the very long journey home. And then I'm going to get up to some other interesting things in my day. Just under 15 minutes, but it looks like we have some fun unboxing to do later in this video, which is very exciting. I'm just going to unpack, tidy up a little bit and then get ready for this call. See you in a minute. All right, so it is 7 p.m. and I'm done with all of my commitments for the day, which means it's time to go to the gym. You'll probably know that I like to run quite often, but recently I've decided I'm going to quit running or at least cut back on it quite a bit. Because yeah, I used to go to the gym like four or five times a week. I was really big and strong. And then for some reason I decided I was just going to run, run, run every single week. And I've gotten greater running. My stamina's gone up. But as a result, I feel like I've lost some weight, come a lot smaller than I was. So it's time to go back to the gym and get big again. I'm currently going about three days a week and even when it's a bit late like now, I still try and make time for it because if you don't make time for it, you're just never going to do it. And the gym's one of those things where sometimes it's harder to get yourself there, but once you actually go, you have such a good time. You get that mental reset. You get re-energized and you can continue on with your day. So I'm going to grab the bus there and I'll see you in a bit. Very good sesh. Time to grab some food. I've reset sauce and I've thrown on some chili green peppers as well. And I'm very excited to get this food in me. So I think you've seen enough of me for today. We'll unbox that huge package tomorrow after a full day of medicine on the acute medical unit. So I will see you in the morning. All right. As you guys saw, the tube station is closed and my commute is already like an hour and 15 minutes long. I'm not prepared to add on an extra half an hour just for the day. So I guess we are home for today. It's a little bit annoying, minor inconvenience. But on the bright side, it is 815 and I'm pretty much ready to start my day and get going. And even though I'm not going to be on clinical placement, I've still got plenty of studying to do, plenty of other activities that need to get done. So it might actually be nice to stay home and get all those things checked off the checklist. I've just been sat at my desk doing some life admin type work, but I figured out what I want to do with the rest of the day. So since I've got a bunch of studying to do both for my normal night school exams and for my situational judgment test that's coming up soon, I'm going to record a long, long study with me video. So this might be a little bit overkill, but I've got one camera there, one camera there, one camera there and the screen recording. So hopefully this should be the most varied and interesting study with me video ever. I'll put a little bit of the clip here, but make sure you subscribe and stay tuned on the channel to see that when it comes out. Enjoy. All right, all done with that long, long study with me session. I've actually come to central for a little bit. I'm here for a fairly random appointment. I'm actually doing laser hair removal for my back. A little bit strange. Well, you guys have been watching the channel. You probably know that my Middle Eastern jeans have blessed me with a ton of hair this year, sort of with the intention of taking better care of myself and doing things that I want to do. I've decided to go for it. So all done now on my way home. I am going to level with you. That was pretty painful, not even going to lie. Heading home now to grab some food and my sister and then my friends coming over to play some video games with me later tonight. So I think I'll pick up with you guys when that's happening later on. Morning guys. It is Wednesday and I've just been sitting at my computer for a couple of hours now, mostly doing life administrative work. That music that you hear in the background is me waiting to make a GP appointment. I need to get a refill on all of my asthma medication as soon as possible. Hi there. Good afternoon. I'm trying to book a GP appointment. A bunch of shoes that need a bunch of lacing up to do. I actually washed my shoes in the laundry for the first time ever in the laundry in the washing machine for the first time ever a couple days ago. After some people on placement told me that they do it regularly. So I was like, hey, why not? And then we run my shoes through the laundry, get them all clean. So I'm going to lace them up whilst talking to you about medical school and what I'm up to. Medical school here in the UK. We generally have Wednesdays off. So Wednesdays are like holy days that are dedicated to sports and sporting events, which is honestly great because it gives you a little bit of a break in the middle of the week. And it almost schedules in like forced time for you to be able to do extracurricular activities. One of the big problems I had at the University of Toronto was that every day was so jam packed with different academic requirements. I just felt like I didn't have any time for extracurriculars. So I honestly appreciate that from the university so much. So this academic block on my acute care rotation and for the long term conditions rotation that I just had, what we have scheduled for our Wednesdays is something called the Global Health Essay. So this Global Health Essay is exactly what it sounds like. We can write an essay on any topic that we want as long as it is to do with global health. The deadline for that is coming up in a few weeks and I haven't even thought about it at all. I think I'm just going to go to the library one day, sit down and find get out in 24 or 48 hours. I'll be sure to make a video about that. So definitely subscribe if you haven't already told us to say that on Wednesdays we generally have a decent amount of time off from medical school, which is great for me because I've got an entire YouTube channel to run in my spare time. Finally done. That actually took forever. Check out the email that just came in my inbox. Let's go. Package days are the best days hands down. Does this even fit on my desk? These are packages from a company called Grovemade. They are responsible for quite a few really nice things on my desk and very excitingly. They've gone ahead and sent even more products. Hi, Nasser. Thank you so much. Thank you guys so much. As much as I like using electronic calendars and reminders for a lot of things, sometimes you just need to write things down on pen and paper. So I decided to get these two notepad note taking things, one really big one and one small one and unboxing knife. Having a nice dedicated knife instead of almost cutting myself with these scissors every time is going to be great. And then in this massive box, brand new knife to use. I'm not a hundred percent sure where I'm going to put them up just yet, but I'm going to find a lovely, lovely place for them and you guys will be seeing them in upcoming videos. And I'll leave an affiliate link in the description down below if you guys want to check them out for yourself. Okay, let's put this in the hallway for now. All right, let's clean up this mess and go cook some food. Here's what we're cooking. Let's get started. Shout out, Gusto, as always. Honestly, it smells amazing. I'm just going to sit down and watch it with an episode of the office. And I think you guys have seen enough of me outside of medical school. So I'm going to close the vlog over here for today and pick up with you again tomorrow when I go into the wards on the acute medical unit. Peace. So the AMU or the acute medical unit is where patients go once they've been seen in the ED and it's been decided that they need admission to hospital. So they're not well enough to go home, but we don't know exactly which ward to send those patients or we think that they're well enough that they only need maybe one or two days in the hospital. So whilst patients are in AMU, they'll receive treatment and investigations that will either make them well enough to go home or they'll show that they need admission to a specific ward on the hospital. So for example, the respiratory ward, the cardiology ward, gastrointestinal, orthopedics, geriatrics, whatever happens to be. I'm going to head over there now, try and help prepare the patient notes for the consultant-led ward round with other junior doctors there and get started with the day. Do some blood, some other random jobs here and there and I'll see you guys after. All right, it is 1.15 p.m. time for some much-needed lunch. I'll tell you guys about what I did and then we'll catch up in the library. We're back out on the balcony for an update of what I've been up to on the wards. I saw a series of different presentations, one or two of which that I hadn't seen before, which was great. I ended up taking blood from two patients, which was lovely. The second one was actually really difficult. I was sitting there for like five minutes just feeling, trying to feel the vein. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Trying to make sure I get it right before I poke him and thankfully it went through. Everything was fine. I also attempted to put in the cannula on another patient, but I didn't get it in. It's okay. You live and you learn. It's all good experience. And then something I did today for the first time, which I've never done before, was write a discharge summary for a patient. So you review all the notes and take a look at what's happened to the patient since the admission up until now, when they're going to be discharged and sort of summarize it and put it in a nice story format so that any GP reading it or any medical professional in the future reading it can know exactly what happened during their hospital admission. So yeah, we're learning, doing new things and I'm slowly getting myself in that position of a first year doctor or a junior doctor. So that when the time comes, I'm ready to go. Anyways, for now, let me just get changed and then we need to hit the library because I've got a presentation to do. I'll tell you about that in a sec. So what this involves is choosing a patient that we've seen over the course of the acute care block and making a presentation about them to the rest of the class. So generally, it's about what the patient came in with. So what symptoms and signs did they have and then what investigations did we do for them? What were the results of those? What impression did we come up with? What diagnosis did they eventually get and sort of their journey throughout their time in hospital? So I'm actually presenting tomorrow in the morning. I need to be back here and presenting and I haven't started the presentation yet, but it's not that bad. I anticipate it's going to take like 45 minutes or an hour. So nothing too crazy. Got myself a nice big Americano coffee and some M&M snacks to keep me going. I'm just going to go sit down in the library and bang this one out. Studying medicine and practice past paper questions that I promised myself. I was going to do every day after placement, even though I really want to go home and chill. But I need to do this a little bit every day is going to keep me on my toes and keep that information fresh as opposed to just trying to cram it all right before the exam. So let's get started on that. Leave a comment down below of the first color of M&M that's about to come out of this packet. Go right now. Leave a comment. Leave a comment. I think it'll be blue. Scrolling through TikTok and YouTube videos for a little bit over half an hour now. My lord and savior, the gusto box has arrived. So I need to unpack this and throw everything in the fridge and in the cupboards where it belongs. And then we're going to hit the gym. Quick little fit check before we go. Sheesh. All right. This is your friendly reminder that no matter how busy your day is or your schedule gets, you've always got time for your physical and mental health. I promise a little bit of exercise with that's going for a walk for a run, going to the gym for a light or heavy session, whatever it is, it's the best thing you can do to just clear your mind, reset and just it's just it's fantastic. If you don't exercise, try and build it into your routine somehow. Today we're doing our favorite day at the gym, which is leg day. I'll catch you guys after the gym. Peace. Let's unbox these packages because I'm very excited and I can't wait any longer. Now this big one, this has a bit of an interesting story behind it. So back a couple of years ago now when I was starting to grow a little bit on YouTube, I was starting to upgrade my camera equipment. I was starting to upgrade my microphones and then I wanted to upgrade my lighting equipment. Now, if you guys know anything about camera gear and upgrading equipment for this YouTube space, you'll know things can get very expensive, very fast. I wanted to get my lighting from the best company to do lighting, which is Aperture. But I went on the website and everything was way too expensive. I couldn't even come close to affording it. And so I got the cheaper alternative, which I'll show you right now. Not by some stroke of luck, Aperture reached out to me and sent me an email saying, Hey, Nasser, we love your videos. We love what you're doing. Is there any way we can help? And I said, well, yes, my old light just died. I could really use a new one. As they said, Nasser, no problem. We'll send you one ASAP and here it is. This is fantastic. All right. It's all set up. Check it out. This helps make the room a lot brighter. This is one of those days when you just wake up in the morning, you look outside, you hear the rain and you just want to go straight back to bed. Should I turn around? Should I go home? Got a presentation to do. Let's go. I also literally just washed my shoes. Some bullshit. So I've got 15 minutes to kill. Grab myself a nice coffee because I've got the time. Why not? And yeah, just going to chill before heading in. Change of the weather conditions. Surfaces around the station may be slippery. Please stay. In the middle of the day, I have my presentation. We're going to have some teaching and then we'll see what we get up to on our Friday evening. All right. It's Friday. We're almost there. One more day and then it's the pinky presentation to do first. It's about to leave to go to the wards and a group of like 12 students walked into the student room and they're all like, They're a group of second years who have just started in the hospital today. That was mad. Okay. I'm actually going to go now because I'm running a bit late. So I'll see you guys later before my presentation. Peace. To give you guys a bit of this video, I just had four previous unlines and specifically, he's had a stent in last week that was treated. And he had a stent inserted with an ICD. He was only given one. I think it was just called the same. So high pretension, elevated JVP, mucle partisans, flex file, which indicates cardiac apanone. What is up, guys? Brief explanation of what we're doing. We're praying for an upcoming exam called the situational judgment test in which we are going to be on the test. You need to look at different ethical scenarios and rank what the best or most appropriate options are and things like that. So I'm here with Fred and Rachel and we're going through some scenarios online on like the GMC's, what do they call? Well, I think it's something in action, the GMP in action. So good medical practice in action. Good medical practice in action. So we're reading through different ethical scenarios and then trying to decide what responses or actions that doctors should take in preparation for this exam. I'm chilling in the shed, which is the cafeteria on Guy's campus where we used to go a lot in the first second and third year. And I was just sitting down to eat food and look who showed up. Absolutely mad. Wow. That was amazing. It was absolutely lovely meeting you all. Thank you for coming to say hi. You're honestly so fun, so interesting and really kind. So thanks for saying hi to me. So I want to meet more of you and get to know you guys a little bit more. Put some more faces to all the names, the comments and the likes on these videos. Yeah, I really want to meet you guys. Anyways, for my Friday evening, I am heading to a friend's house. We're going to meet up with a couple other people and have a board games and drinking night. Yesterday, I came home and passed out immediately. I forgot to close off this vlog, so let's do that right now. Thanks so much for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed. And I think it had a pretty good mix of everything that I normally do in a week. Studying, going to placement, exercise, chilling and having fun. So I think it was a good holistic view of my life. If you did enjoy this video, don't forget to leave a like on it and also subscribe to my channel. See more content from me in the future and I'll catch you in the next one. Peace. We almost spilled coffee all over my desk. That would have been a disaster.