An enthusiastic tutor

If there's one thing we learn in the five years of medical school, it is that us medical students are the bottom of the medical food chain, we are parasites that feed upon our tutors' time, and we need to call them to humbly ask for a bit of their time and if anyone else is having tutorials, we hang around and try to eavsedrop.

So what is the problem with a tutor who enthusiastically gives us at least 2.5hrs of tutorials without fail every week?

Let me try to clue you in to our situation:

- After the first tutorial, we have never initiated contact with him since, and yet we still have tutorials every week.
- When he asked for a combined tutorial, we tried to warn the rest when informing them cos we feel we had to take informed consent (ie. when they regret their decision to come, we can say don't say we didn't warn you), and sure enough, ten minute into the tut, Wl turned to me and said, "i see what u mean".
- When we are all minding our own business in the ward, he swooped down on us and asked if we're waiting for him for tutorial. We hurriedly said that we're waiting for another tutor (truth) and he said, "ok i'll see you at 4.30 then, your tutorial should have ended by then." That was at 2pm.
- He called up our cg rep and told him tat he can give us a tutorial that day, our cg rep very tactfully and cleverly said that we're all in sgh tat day (half-truth), but the tutor even more cleverly said "we can meet at 4.30."
- One of us tried to escape (out of the kindness of my heart, I shall not mention names) but he captured 'said student' walking away from the designated meeting place and he said," hey aren't you in my tut grp? we meeting in tat ward rite?" And 'said student' was forced to say that he/she was going to the toilet. Hahahahahaha.... 'said student' was very pissed indeed..
- During that tutorial, one of us was sleeping so obviously that he was almost leaning on his neighbour's shoulders, someone was mugging under the table, someone was doodling on his book, someone was looking pissed (me), and we were all not looking at him, and yet tutorial can still go on uninterrupted for 2hours. (There were only 8 of us and we were all sitting around a table).

Still not clued in? How abt this:
- in our first week, he said he wasn't free to give us tutorial that day but he can meet us for a talk, he ended up talking for 1 plus hour abt everything under the sun that has nothing to do with medicine.
- we can spend two hours going through 1 long case, but maybe only 2minutes of the 2 hours is useful.
- some of the topics he spoke of during tutorials include cows. Actually, I honestly don't remember cos i always immediately switched off the moment i sensed him going off-tangent, but the others mentioned the 'cow-topic' as one of the worst topics ever, you can ask Wk abt it...

The only reason why I'm in a good enuf mood to blog abt this today is because our great escape worked.