Rhapsody In Chanel

just found this in my old blog o_O loved this story briefing...never got finished...it was since "anglified" - so Thalia & Maddie became consultants, Elliot & Jessica became "newly qualified doctors" (what's the English equiv of an intern???), Caroline became picky of her career, and only likes being called an Anaesthesiologist (and she's not Elliot's mum, Thalia is). I've modified it from the original (:

Rhapsody In Chanel
(Observing are Owen, and six medical students. Assisting are Elliott Byrne, the newbie (as Thalia calls them), Maddie Greene, a senior registar, with surgical hopes as high as Thalia's, Jessica Hope-Wynne, another newbie, who isn't quite as slow as Elliott, Caroline Byrne, yes, Elliott's mom, as who's an anaesthetist, and two scrub nurses).

Rhapsody In Chanel is my story about a professional, and sometimes annoying, surgeon called Thalia Harkness (Byrne), who also works for Torchwood. No one actually knows if she's married to Jack, or is just using his name, but either way, she's brilliant, and she knows it. She doesn't let anyone tell her what to do, and even ignores Jack most of the time; and it's him who's in charge of her when she's at Torchwood.

In her operating theatre, she is the sole responsibility for keeping patients alive, and she has never lost a patient under anaesthetic; not even the one's she nearly lost to a powercut, as she tries to explain, after a heart transplant nearly ends in disaster.

She's a pain the backside, and she knows it. She constantly knocks the confidence of an average surgeon, who, as a first year registrar surgeon, is still learning a little bit, but is learning to be headstrong, because he knows that missus Harkness is very unlikely to change; she's much older than him, and, compared to her fourteen years as a surgeon (four years as a consultant), has only just really qualified.
She's possibly the only surgeon where she works, that will give a student lecture through major surgery, and the only one she knows that can out-smart her anaesthetist when it comes to the correct dosages of anaesthetics.

Most of her free time is spent with the man she loves. Or should that be men? She's properly in love with Owen, someone she taught medicine to as a new Consultant surgeon. But she still has feelings for Jack, over on hundred and thirty years since they met, working for the Time Agency; it was her that really got him the job with Torchwood, although he doesn't know it, and he still thinks Thalia's completely nuts.

So, after an almost disasterous transplant,Thalia, sat in her office, amusing Owen with stories of her time at medical school, receives call from Jack, who's in a panic, because Toshiko has showed him live news footage of something happening at the hospital.
But, after the scare that it my be Chlostridium Deficile, Thalia, Owen and surprisingly Elliott, find out that it's far from it, and must stop whatever it is. Because whatever it is, isn't human...

Medical Science Interview

Meh. Have my interview in about an hour and half. Don't want to go, but sort of have to. I have a feeling I wont end up getting the place though.

It's for a medical science course, which is likely to prepare me for a degree in medicine, nursing or biochemistry.I don't think I should feel too crappy about it, because it's either my physics tutor or my chemistry tutor who'll be giving my interview, but I have a problem with speaking out loud - I know what I want to say, but I don't seem to be able to get it out of my mouth a lot of the time. Which is odd, because if I'm in class, I tend to be VERY loud. I don't think I'll get it because of some issues with late coursework, but it's still college, not university, so maybe...I've worked really hard, and I've agreed dates with my tutors when I can hand in my work (handed in a two-month overdue chemistry assignment today...handing in a two-month overdue assignment for physics tomorrow...I got a referral on both of them).

Thinking about it now, though, there are students who are a lot worse at handing assignments in, and who haven't got any kind of grades (so far I've been blessed with three passes, two merits & two distinctions) and my attendance has been near-perfect (two lates...one full day), so maybe I need to chill a bit & look at it possitively? lol, this turned into more of a bit of a rant, I think (: