Through my dreams…

Scene opens to a dark night… Wet pavement… My CG is having a tutorial with one of the female paeds doc from eh-hem (and it’s not DG). I’ve been asked to do a short case - and weirdly, my patient was a pair of shoes… and there I was going…

Me: This is a pair of slippers, it’s the thong-type and looks fairly new. I say this because the soles are not worn off, and the colours of the design appear rather fresh. I am unable to tell the pattern of wear or any abnormality in the patient’s gait because the soles are still quite new, and no patterns of wearing off are noted.

Paeds doc: and? what else? What did I teach you all the other time?

Me: Er… I would like to know whether the patient is a diabetic, because they are not supposed to be wearing this kind of slippers…

Paeds doc: Nooo…

Me: (oh no, wrong liao!)

Paeds doc: What is the gender of the patient! What is the size of the slippers huh!

Me: Ohhh… (aiyo, how can forget such basic things)

My CG looks on in silence and tries to be empathetic (think KD saying: I care for you… you know… ;) )

Owner of the slippers: Hey, where are my slippers huh? How come you all took my slippers without my permission?

Paeds doc: What did I tell you all about asking permission from the patient first? (staring daggers at the guys in my CG, cuz they were the ones who went to ransack the shoe rack)

And then my phone alarm rang, for once, it was a blissful sound to me…