Tuesday, January 31, 2006

So far, it's just been totally hectic. Most things are doable, just requires a lot of phone calls and running around. Not much medicine. Intership's the year when we won't learn anything and will forget a lot of the stuff we knew in med school. Although i shouldn't be thinking this cos then I will really be neglecting the real medical issues of my patients. The only time when we get very stressed and wish we'd known more or had more experience is when we do ROSTERED OVERTIME (EVENINGS, NIGHTS, WKENDS). This is when there's only a skeleton staff and very little support from more senior medical officers. (The other day, a friend of mine in this smaller hospital, was covering almost the entire hospital on her own and somehow was not able to contact the registra who wasn't answering his/her pager. That was scary!)

Today, i got call "doctor" again. It was by a patient's family member that wanted an update on our plans for her mother. That's probably the 2nd time that i think i've been called that (within my radius of hearing) in the last 1.5 weeks of working. Really don't feel like one at all. Interns are some times referred to as "glorified clerk", because of the above reason. feel quite incompetent. please don't call me that.

One -ve thing about being busy's that i don't have the time to chat to people and get to know my colleagues. And i can get so involved in my work that i am always in a rush, talk really quickly and forget to smile. I mean, i say "thank you" and "please" (like a good girl) countless number of times everyday, but ppl prob don't think they are genuine if i don't smile. Guess smiling's just not something that comes naturally to me.

Today's Highlight

Discharging a patient, that came in yesterday, without having laid eyes on him. Oh, whoops, according to the notes it was a she. That's how busy i was.

posted by zhinger @ 8:48 pm

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