I had a bad day

Because of missed communication and misunderstanding, I made my lecturer waited for my group in the ward and in the end, i did not turn up, this was happened yesterday. The day before, i called her up and she replied as "see you in the ward tomorrow at 10.30am", and i perceived it as she wanted to meet me personally in the ward to fix a time for ward round. The next day, i went down to dermatology clinic at 9.30am and i thought i was able to meet her after my clinic and tutorial, as i thought she would be doing her ward round. After everything ended at 12.40pm, i went back to the ward and she wasn't there already. I called her and she was so angry with me and today she met my whole group, just to scold me alone in front of the others. Thanks to my group mates, they understand me.

Yea i admit it was my fault, i should have presented to her at 10.30am in the ward, or at least, i should call her from the clinic. I felt so sorry, nothing more i can do, just hoping that she will get well very very soon forgiving us. What can i hope more? Hope that lecturers can convey their message well next time.

The second incidence, made a ward round session with another lecturer at 10am, the whole group waited for him since 9am. It happened to be at the same time, another lecturer was doing ward round and he was willing to teach, so the whole group followed his round. When it came to around 10am, i kept going out from the cubicles to see if that lecturer came to the ward, but i never saw him until 10.20am, i called him, he said he would come soon, then i joined back the ward round, kept looking at the corridor. At 10.40am, a staff nurse came to us asking whether we had appointment with that lecturer and she said the lecturer was waiting outside the ward. Immediately we chased after him and all of us went up to ward 13U and he was there. When he attended to us, he scolded us because we were letting him waited for us since 10.10am, and his plan was spoiled because of us. Come on lecturer, i understand that your time is very precious, but if you were to look for somebody in the ward, will you just standing outside the ward and look for us through the windows?? If you were waiting since 10.10am, were you in 13U or outside 4U?

He said that this is the hierarchy of a medical profession, from consultant to lecturer to medical officer to house man to medical student(super senior) to 1st year medical student. Just like in army and police, the superior has to be harsh in order to train better staffs. Yes this is so true and i never question their experience and knowledge, but can the lecturers be reasonable a bit?? Perhaps it was my fault again, because i made them angry? Sometimes i really fade up of becoming a group "representative", feel so sorry whenever calling a lecturer because it might disturb their works, when the lecturer does not turn up at the time fixed, the group mates rely on me to call up the lecturer, as they could not wait more, which i think it's very troublesome for the lecturer as he or she might be on their way rushing to bring us a class. As a medical student, what we can do is just waiting, that's the lesson i learned today.

It's been a bad day for me, i have never been "orientated" like this since first few weeks i entered medical school. Truely bad, and the third incidence, which happened when i lost a bet at night. Haih today is really not my day..... cause i had a bad day!! Who can sing this song to me??