It's been a while.
Erm. 6 days actually.
Haven't been doing much but revising for exams. There's only about 1 lesson per day so I've hardly got any past papers to do anymore as revision. :|

THIS IS A RANDOM NOTE BUT ... DAMMIT I CAN'T WAIT FOR SOFTSUBS FOR LOVE SHUFFLE.
DO WANT, DO WANT.
Oh, and I finished Bloody Monday... I won't talk about it here in case people haven't seen it but I had warnings about its ending being bashed quite a lot, so when I watched it expecting it to be really bad it was... okay... ish.
Unexpected but unsatisfactory >___>

So yes- Horikita Maki Fanart
A preview, as usual:

( And a cut, as usual to save your eyes from unnessecary bleeding. :D )

After the Liverpool Interview, I've totally gone off reading medical news. WHICH IS BAD. I mean, I'm not meant to be doing this just for the sake of being able to answer questions at interviews. If I really want Medicine to be my career in the future, it's something I'll be doing practically every day.
SO! What I've decided to do is force myself to summarise a few points every time I post here.

1.
Patients are getting their own 'personal health budget', aimed to increase the responsibility and involvement of patients with their own healthcare. i.e. they can choose where to get care from etc etc. Problems involved with introducing this is (obv) getting the the budget figure itself right (actually, the article mentioned it was a 'direct payment'. That sounds like they're just handing out cash, which it wouldnt be otherwise people can go buy a freakin TV. It should be some sort of 'credit card' system where the money can only be spent on healthcare, right? :| ) And then there's the problems of having to work out whether to allow top-up's in this system, and what treatments they'll have to exclude etcetc.

2.
The use of a pulse oximetry screening techinque can detect the level of oxygen in premature babies' blood as a more accurate way (than physical tests are) at detecting the underdeveloped blood vessel than bypasses the babies' lungs. (lungs are one of the last things to be developed in a baby). No significant disadvantages have been mentioned for this so it's being pushed to become a routine check.

3.
Another lungs related breakthrough for premature babies is the current investigation into the calcium receptors in their lungs that 'switch on' the growth of lungs (again, they're one of the last things to be developed, so premature babies are at a risk of getting chronic lung disease). The best thing about this is that there's already known drugs that can 'control' the calcium receptors (and so would take WAY less time to be approved than a new drug would take). Right now they have to carry on with trials and stuff to find if there is a correlation between the receptor activity and post-natal lung defects, by studying individuals who have their receptors on or off permenantly.

PHEW. None of that was actually copy and pasted so there's probably mistakes in places but ah well.
It's a start :/

OH-OH!
AND LOOKLOOK:

A WIP of what misao08 is drawing for me :D Jawless girl is no longer jawless - AND IS SO CUTE ♥
(She also pulled me to the dark side Korean fandom... TAEMIN♥ (WITH HIS OLD HAIR) *____*

What started out to be a puppet journal to leech off media from LJ comms has gradually turned into a fanart journal D:

i.
Mozu from TEH AWESOME Sidooh:
Preview:

( BYAKURENTAI FTW )
SO UNDERRATED AND FABULOUS ♥



ii.
Dogs: Bullets & Carnage.
Preview:

( Haine + Naoto )
NAOTO NAOTO! ♥

I should get a move on with Chemistry. The module's in about... ho shit less than 20 days and there's stuff I keep coming across that I don't even REMEMBER learning. IT'S NOT EVEN IN THE TEXT BOOK WTF?

And out of the 100 sit-ups I've meant to have done today, so far: 0.
WHAT AMAZING RESOLUTIONS I KEEP D:
I'll go and do some now.