Week Report

It has been a hectic week, interview with Ms Lim Siew Woon, an oncology pharmacist from NUH, MKT1003 presentation right after the interview, getting a not so good grade for the presentation, and today's pharmacy sports carnival, although i din really help :P

The interview with Ms Lim is extremely informative and inspiring. Now i know that being an oncology pharmacist is not as easy as any tom dick and harry thinks. One very important point to become an oncology pharmacist, or any other professionals in fact, is passion and the willingness to sacrifice. What type of sacrifice? Mainly time and effort. Time as you're expected to be really generous with your time. If you thinks that you need a five day work week. Do the patients fall ill only during the weekends? The cancer cells have five day work week too? You come to work early, e.g. 5am in the morning? Can you leave early? Like 3.00pm just because you came early? Let me ask you a question. Have you finish doing your work yet? What if your patient goes into ICU at 4.00pm? I think this is the main reason pharmacist in Singapore prefers to go into industry and mostly non-hospital related areas. True, you may earn more money if u go into retail pharmacy, a five day work week when you go into industry, but at the end of the day I think the most important is the job satisfaction. You earn a lot of money so what? If your life is empty, you're just an empty vessel anyway.

Enough of being philosophical, another lesson that I've learned during my presentation is that ALWAYS THINK OUT OF THE BOX! True enough, information can be easily obtained, but the creativity part is always the x factor which decides whether you'll clinch a deal. Time to go for more training in presenting.

Finals is just 3 weeks down the road, hopefully I can start my engine going next week. Over and out.