the ultimate qe medical call night

finished my last call day in qe medical as an intern... fuk fuk and i were praying for a good call night... perhaps He was busy answering fuk's prayer and hasn't got time to take care of mine... my last call night was a very "qe" one... i literally stayed in the same ward all night admitting patients... npo and npu for some 10 hours... the next morning i almost fell asleep in front of my computer...

last night all 13 housemen "celebrated" the end of rotation... we gathered and ordered pizza... after that we girls met some boy MOs and went for a drink... a super happy evening... i think i really really like this group of colleagues... they're all nice and responsible ppl... and super supportive, remember we're so lost at the beginning... and i'm really glad here i met some really good friends, ppl whom i feel so comfortable to chat with... i hope people in my med school are equally nice... so that i'll work happily... look happy is very important, especially when we're working under so much stress...

btw... in addition to the nice places i mentioned... there's a staff recreation room on s blk grd floor... yoyo took us there yesterday... it's a bit far but that's the perfect place if u need somewhere to share a pizza...

birthday weekend

i used to celebrate my birthday month and birthday week... as i'm getting old, birthday celebrations are reduced this year...

very happy to meet high school buddies for dinner on saturday... thanks to others for remembering my bday and the sms...

prebirthday call day was kinda okay... workload kinda acceptable... not many demanding nurses in satelite wards... i managed to keep myself as cheerful as possible becoz it's my birthday and that i need to stay happy... sleep was bad... the air con in my bedroom broke down... my sleep was broken into 5 fragments... each less than 30 mins...

the birthday morning is again okay... complicated by an ill patient in overflow ward... i still managed to attend free-lunch meeting... it's all very acceptable until 5.30pm... when a patient with gross haematuria (ie. frank blood in urine) developed AROU (ie. acute retention of urine) in ward with a palpable bladder of 16 week... naturally i consulted the on-call urologist... remember i mentioned about the urology MO who needs a CNS reboot... yes, it's him again... and he is such an absolute b*stard that has totally pissed me off on my postcall birthday...

this person has a history of calling me through the operator and asked me not to consult him again... and then he told my friend who's an intern in his team about me always consulting him...

yesterday he agreed to see my patient and son of the b*tch asked me to escort my patient to his ward for an ultrasound!!! in this hospital, the respectable house officers only escort patients who're highly unstable... ie patient who may deteriorate at anytime, usually patients on ventilator or patients to ICU... i think this is a very reasonable arrangement... i don't see any reason why my patient is at risk of sudden deterioration... he didnt come to see the patient... and i don't see why he needed an ultrasound to confirm an enlarged bladder... the first cath was >1L... anyone who has seen a normal tummy can tell the patient has a distended bladder... all he needs to do is to come and insert a suprapubic cath... at most with a bladder scan... even the other MO in his ward was surprised to find me there... i told him why and he was like... "er... he really hates medical a lot..."

well a lot of surgical ppl hate medical ppl... but very few do more harm than good like him... took an HCA plus a nurse plus a doctor to bring a patient down... took the lift to go up and down... made the patient changed from bed to stretcher to bed... what if the patient's injured on transfer??? all becoz of his selfishness and ruthlessness...

thankyou very much dr. f, for wasting all the manpower and made my dad waited for an hour... congrats for spoiling my mood on my birthday and making me hate u...

happy post-call day

what a happy day... today is post-call day... and i'm staying up till late... i had 3 hour sleep last night... workload wasn't heavy today... some minor routines in the morning... went to out-patients in the afternoon... for the first time i saw patients... and i made management plans... there's a consultant next to me... it was great fun... then we had evaluation for the rotation... had a nice chat... ate plenty of lindt swiss thin chocolate... yummy... then met my medic buddies for dinner... i wasn't tired still... i even went to lan kwai afterwards... havent been there for ages... tonight was super duper happy...

the ultimate happy booster: talked to mochung and mum and dad today... they've bought me plenty of things from italy... mochung said even the tax refund for my goods is greater than the sum he spent in italy... woh... can't wait...

quantifying a call-day

1 call day
= 9am on day 1 to 6pm on day 2
= 33 consecutive working hours
= time taken for mum to go to work and off work, then back home, pack things & have dinner, then go to the airport, flight to london, followed by another flight to rome, taxi to hotel, and check-in & settle in hotel

i left home together with mum on friday morning, and both of us went to work, yet she has done so many many things before i'm off duty, on a call-day... kinda depressing...

good places in qeh

thanks to my huney darlings for all your words... i luv u ppl...

it's almost time to leave... i think i like this hospital... i hv discovered some nice places where other qe interns may like to hide when u need something different...

my number one recommendation is "the oasis" outside c4... it's a homely room designed for staff to relax themselves with music, books and tea... i've taken pictures of it... but i'm still sorting out how to send pictures in my phone to my laptop with infrared... erh... anyway... it is small but good enough... usually occupied by on-call interns at night...

staff cyber corner in ground floor of nursing quarter is another good place especially if u want internet and u dont have a password... bright and spacious...

sadly the 7-11 in qeh was replaced by circle-k, this is bad... becoz i can't find anything nice to eat from its fridge... the only thing i like from the fridge is fresh mango juice... then i'd take a seat in the open area outside and look up the bigbig sky... it's great when there's no smoking patients around... it warms me up during call nights coz indoor area is too cold for someone lacking sleep...

back to work

my leave is over and i'm back to work... the week began well... my workload in this new post is a lot less... my tutor is a nice person and he knows the stuff... so i'm able to learn... i thought this is great... i'm going to enjoy the rest of the month in this department and it's my birthday month...

but things don't always go on that well... now something bothers me and that's affecting my concentration... with that comes some minor mistakes... so the stressor plus minor mistakes comes more mistakes... i did things like typing my login and password under the "diagnosis" column, throwing a syringe into the bin while keeping the plastic bag in my tray... perhaps inexperience is inexperience... i'm gonna learn to separate personal stuffs from work...

queer english

yesterday i wrote a thank you letter... i was lazy and i remembered someone mentioned sample letters from the web... for the very first time i did copy and paste from these templates... and i asked yingyingbird to proofread for me as i normally do...

guess what... yyb said it's the first time i didn't write in "queer english"!!! right, because it's the first time i didnt write the thing myself...

o gee... i knew my english is bad and it's getting worse... i thought practise makes perfect... that's one of the reasons why i started a blog... apparently it's not helping... i noticed my english got worse when i entered medical school and further when i left... um... sad...

have u noticed

...that "twinkle twinkle little star" and "abc song" share the same tune?