| Friday, June 08, 2007 |
| Physician in the making |
The patients in the medical wards are talkative.
Me: Uncle, on this admission, did you have fever?
Patient 1: This admission? No... But last time ah, I got very high fever one. Waa.. that time you know what ah..etc etc etc..
Me: Uncle, how many medications are you taking for your hypertension?
Patient 2: Haiyo, I can't remember-lah. The doctor give me this.. then give that.. then one time I go see this traditional medicine man.. he give me this.. then this happened.. than I go here there everywhere.. waah, all this and that bla bla bla..
Me: Huh?! So how many pills are you taking everyday?
There was this patient who had Hodgkin's lymphoma who talked so much after I asked him a question, and I started daydreaming when he was talking, next thing I knew he suddenly went, "Haloo?".. Haha, had to cover up, quickly recovered and told him to continue his story, as if I never drifted off in the first place.
Medicine posting. One minute you happily talking with a patient who had heart failure, 2 days later he goes into respiratory distress, gets intubated and sent to ICU. In the ward I'm in, 2 patients died when I was there, 2 went into respiratory distress, 1 ended up in coma and 1 dumb alcoholic decided to pull his IV drip out by himself and ended up with blood dribbling onto his bed and floor. All in 5 days. 15 more days to go. What more will come? |
posted by Sha @ 6:59 PM  |
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which ward are u in? so 'happening'..:) hehe. Medical ward is the busiet ward in HTJ, agree? Looking @ the extended bedsss...wah! What to do?
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Luckily we don't need to cover beds in this posting. Confirm I'll collapse :p
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which ward are u in? so 'happening'..:) hehe. Medical ward is the busiet ward in HTJ, agree? Looking @ the extended bedsss...wah! What to do?