Friday, July 22, 2005

mercy on patients

it's been three weeks by now... i think i still have mercy on patients... when i attempt venepuncture for a few times and i fail, i give patients a break... i ask my expert partner to help or i retry later... nurses think that's becoz i'm still young at work... they're probably right... when my seniors prick someone's skin they keep going and going...

there's (at least) one type of patients to whom i don't have mercy... people who drug overdose themselves with all sort of funny things... each time they do it in the middle of the night and are discovered in the morning by their families and sent to A&E at around 10, by the time they're admitted to my ward it's noon, then nurses do the paper work and call me at 1... that's when i'm almost done with daily routine and am about to go for lunch...

when they come in, they're fed charcoal... when i prick their veins, they're in pain and they cry... when mum sees her miserable child, she's so worried and so they cry together... the whole story is so sad... i think those who overdose themselves are really selfish and stupid... having caused so much trouble for others and their problems remain unsolved... then some months later they come in again and cycle repeats...

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

crisps









came across this ad on a bus today... i was so tired and hungry then... for a second i had a crave for food... then i realised it's crisps and i was so dehydrated already...

it doesnt look like an ad for crisps, does it? with it's greenish background... and all the fresh vege and shrimps... so clever... as if it's fresh food... it looks so healthy... kinda hard to imagine all four are crisps with the high fat and salt content...

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

update

thank for dropping by... i want to keep my blog updated... but i can't... remember in school i was taught the difference between cannot and may not... cannot means i'm unable to...

let me first talk about my life outside work... becoz it's much simpler... i sleep... thanks to dad, i have the luxury to go home for dinner and sleep this week...

work is busy... it's kinda anticipated... so i manage to survive... there're plenty of CU HOs and quite some 1st yr MOs... they're all very very nice ppl... i want to thank them becoz my first week would be quite hopeless without them... nurses are generally nice, too... my post is also a nice one compared to many other medical housemen in QE... so there's no complaint...

to quantify how busy i'm... i hv time to eat... sometimes an hour sleep during a call night... which is not bad... but i had no time to pee... no time to drink... i'm pretty sure i'll develop renal stone sooner or later... when nurses call me becoz patients are NPU for 5 hours... i'm NPU for 10 hours...

there's one terrible urology MO that i wanted to bark at him so badly... but becoz i met a nice urology MO today and i'm lazy and i'm such a lady that i just make a remark here and skip the story... but i really think the terrible MO need a reboot of his cental nervous system to be qualified as homo sapiens...

this 3-day-a-call business has changed my world... becoz i hv 2 to 3 call days a week... btw, a call day means i work from 9 am of day 1 to 6pm of day 2... so i only sleep, get up, brush teeth and shower for approximately 4 times a week... yes i'm very dirty... a 5-day week becomes a 3-day week... interesting...

** thanks to jjj, the link to grad din photos is working now... should be no .html... i pretended to be smart, that's why...

Sunday, July 03, 2005

new life

okay now that work has begun... like all my friends, there's an unfinishable workload and plenty of uninsertable drips... i think i'm still okay... it's not too far from my imagination... but when things appear in front of me i dunno how to handle... there's not a lot of book stuff left in me... and many a times book stuffs are not very practical... like i dunno the dosage for anything gee... there're lots of things i wanna jot down here but my post-call brain isnt quite functioning... on my day 1 i lost 1 tourniquet and broke a pen...

Friday, July 01, 2005

graduation dinner

we continued the night after graduation dinner in brsi happy valley... the night was awesome!!! we're been trying hard to arrange a reunion for months... but people tend not to appear... this time we almost had a complete group... and we all stayed until late despite we had to work the next morning... and people kept treating the group with shots... in the end only a handful out of 2 dozens do simple calculations... i havent seen so many of them drunk... i'm sure everyone enjoyed the night... i dunno when can we meet up and enjoy ourselves again... here comes the pictures...

got a few SMSs from my friends last night... i havent thought of sending little messages before work... in fact i need them... thanks...

received my call list today... i have 10 calls this month... today i'm off... but i worked till 3pm... gee... i really need to speed up with things...