{"id":281,"date":"2006-03-06T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/uncategorized\/a-terrible-miscalculation\/"},"modified":"2006-03-06T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-06T14:16:00","slug":"terrible-miscalculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/2006\/03\/terrible-miscalculation.html","title":{"rendered":"A terrible miscalculation"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a fairly uneventful night duty I got about working on my thesis – the main reason for joining the Neonatology unit. But unfortunately I’d ended up making a terrible error. I thought the last date for submission would be around July 2006. But I casually checked in the office today and I was informed that the last date was just 15th March and I could extend it by 15 days only. The situation was grim and I felt like kicking myself. After some discussion with Dr. Jana and Dr. Anil, an alternative strategy was worked out which left me with a decent shot at finishing on time. I was exempted from regular ward rounds and responsibilities as there were lots of registrars this month! Now I started pulling out some results of babies born in 2004 on the computer. It was a pretty big task – check the cord pH of 8000 babies born in 2004. Fortunately the number\"The<\/a> ids are in blocks of sequences and after doodling with the keyboard, I finally got down to a systematic sequence of keystrokes that would help me scan faster. Input number – [enter] – [tab] – [tab] – scroll – visually check if the cord pH was less than 7.00 – [backspace] – [backspace] – [left arrow] – [backspace] – change last digit…. and there we are…. my fingers flying over the keyboard till I found a pH less than 7.00 when I had to pause to enter some stuff on paper. There’s a pic of the screen that shows the results! It’s going faster than expected and I expect to finish by friday.
I’m very wary of what’s going to follow. It seems quite difficultto be able to finish the thesis. I’ve been quite careless I guess. I’ll just lay it in God’s hands and work hard on it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a fairly uneventful night duty I got about working on my thesis – the main reason for joining the Neonatology unit. But unfortunately I’d ended up making a terrible error. I thought the last date for submission would be around July 2006. But I casually checked in the office today and I was informed that the last date was just 15th March and I could extend it by 15 days only. The situation was grim and I felt like kicking myself. After some discussion with Dr. Jana and Dr. Anil, an alternative strategy was worked out which left me with a decent shot at finishing on time. I was exempted from regular ward rounds and responsibilities as there were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paWFfI-4x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}